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Rittenhouse Square
Past and Present
BY
CHARLES J. COHEN
PRIVATELY PRINTED
1922
To the Memory of
My Honored Father and Mother
HENRY AND MATILDA COHEN
Who Lived in Rittenhouse Square
for Nearly Forty Years
This Sketch Is Dedicated
"The world, as it is, is growing somewhat dim before my eyes;
but the world, as it is to be, looks brighter every day."
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FOREWORD
A word of appreciation should be given to my friends and
acquaintances, descendants of those portrayed "even to the
third and fourth generation," for their courtesy in lending
the portraits for the illustration of this address. The
Historical Society, Philadelphia Library and the Free
Library have made available their treasures, from which
have been drawn many incidents to add to my personal
recollections, as also to confirm traditions that had been
carried from early youth.
To the daily journals of Philadelphia I am indebted for
much information of a biographic character taken from their
notices of prominent men and women as published at the
time of their decease.
In November, 1920, my friend James F. Fahnestock,
recalling a chance remark that some day I intended to write
out memories of my life on Rittenhouse Square, asked me
to prepare a paper embodying the above and to read it
before the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Governors, who
were to gather at his hospitable board at his residence, East
Rittenhouse Square, on the evening of Monday, December 6,
1920. Subsequently the paper was read, illustrated with
lantern-slides, to my fellow-members of the Philobiblon Club
on February 24, 1921 ; to those of the Penn Club on April 18,
1921; to the Club Members of the Walnut Street Presby-
terian Church on May 18, 1921; and to the members of
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on January 23, 1922.
Since the facts collated with the portraits of men and
women noted in municipal and social life accentuate a
period and a phase of local history, it is thought desirable
to put them in permanent form for presentation to my
friends and those interested.
Charles J. Cohen
1520 Spruce Street, Philadelphia
February, 1922
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
Agnew, Mrs. Erwin 1 16
Audenried, John T 201
Audenried, Mrs. John T 202
Boston Row 134
Bowen, Ezra 54
Brock, Robert C. H 148
Brooks, Rev. Phillips 172
Brown, Alexander, the Elder, and His Four Sons 53
Brown, Alexander 190
Brown, John A 199
Brown, John A., Residence 200
Brown, John A., Jr 145
Brown, John Huston 64
Browns & Bowen Bank 52
Carver, Alexander B 234
Cassatt, Alexander J 168
Cassatt, Mrs. Alexander J 169
Chestnut and Broad Streets 84
Chestnut and Twelfth Streets 134
Chestnut and Sixteenth Streets 178
Clark, Ephraim 297
Clark, Mrs. Ephraim 298
Cochran, William G 210
Cohen, Charles J., Birthplace 84
Cohen, Henry 82
Cohen, Mrs. Henry 83, 85
Collins, Alfred M 1 26
Collins, Mrs. Alfred M 128
Crawshay (Cyfarthfa Castle) 260
Crimea, U. S. Military Commission to the 132
Croskey, Henry 118
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x Illustrations
PAGE
Croskey, Mrs. Henry 119
Crousillat House 144
Cuyler, Theodore 74
Cuyler, Mrs. Theodore 75
Dale, Richard C, the Elder 272
Dale, Mrs. Richard C, the Elder 273
Dale, Richard C 274
Davis, Mrs. Sussex D 36
Divine, William 13
Divine, William Elliott 12
Divine, William, Jr 12, 14
Divine, William Stafford 12
Dobbins, Edward T 27
Dodson, Richard W 218
Dodson, Mrs. Richard W 219
Dodson, Miss Sarah Paxton Bali 220
Dolan, Thomas 23 1
Drexel, Anthony J 104
Drexel, Francis A 102
Drexel, Francis M 101
Edwards, George W 248
Evans, Manlius G 153
Field, Mr. and Mrs. John W 291
Fisher, Samuel F 206
Fleming, Mrs. Mattie J 15
Florance, William 277
Fox, Dr: Charles W 65
" Fort Rittenhouse " 299
Franciscus, George C 154
Frazier, William W 17
Frazier, Mrs. William W 19
Frazier, William W., Residence 18
French, Clayton 194
Galli, Count 252
Galli, Countess 253
Illustrations xi
PAGE
Gaul, William 228
Gettysburg Proclamation 86
Gibbons, Charles 94
Gibbons, Mrs. Charles 95
Gillespie, Mrs. Elizabeth Duane 156
Goat, Bronze, in Rittenhouse Square 125
Goodrich, Samuel G. ("Peter Parley") 88
Gratz, Rebecca 133
Grigg, John 198
Groesbeck, Benoist 230
Groesbeck, Mrs. Rosinf. 230
Hacker, Charles 62
Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha 70,71
Hale, Miss Sarah Josepha 72
Hanson, William Rotch 34
Harding, James Horace, Residence 45
Harper, James 226
Harper, James, Residence 225
Harrison, Joseph, Jr 259
Harrison, Mrs. Joseph, Jr 262
Harrison, Joseph, Jr., Residence 261
Hart, Harry Reeves 60
Hart, Reginald L 59
Hart, Thomas 57
Hart, Mrs. Thomas 58
Harvey, Alexander E 140
Harvey, Mrs. Alexander E 142
Haseltine, Frank 195
Henry, Joseph 87
Hinckley, Isaac 289
Hopkins, William Barton, M.D 108
Horse Cars 121, 122
Howell, Francis Carpenter 69
Howell, Zophar C 66
Howell, Mrs. Zophar C 68
Hunter, Thomas P 80
Janney, Robert M., Residence 81
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PAGE
Kemble, Frances Anne 26
Kortright, Sir Charles Edward Keith 250
Kortright, Lady 251
Kortright Residence 255
Lankenau, Frank 106
Lankenau, John D 105
Lejee, William R 240
Lejee, William R., Residence 241
Lennig, Charles 270
Lewis, Theodore C 232
Lewis, S. Weir 139
Lippincott, J. B 161
Lippincott, Mrs. J. B.. . 163
Locust and Eighteenth Streets 266. 269
Lundy, Mrs. J. P 295
McFadden, John H 191
McFadden, George H., Residence 303
McMichael, Hon. Morton 99
MacVeagh, Hon. and Mrs. Wayne 212
Map of Rittenhouse Square 9
Montgomery, John Teackle 296
Moore, Mrs. Joseph 204
Moore, Joseph, Jr 205
Mordecai, Major Alfred 130
Morrell, Edward de V 79
Neff, John R., Jr 115
Neff, Mrs. John R., Jr 114
Newbold, Charles 285
Nineteenth Street, South 171
Norris, Henry 181
Page, S. Davis 279
Page, Mrs. S. Davis 282
Pancoast, Charles Howard 152
Paul, James W 292
Paul, Mrs. James W 293
Illustrations xiii
PAGE
Pepper, George S 208
Percival, Mary Ann 23
Percival, Thomas C 33
Perott's Malt House 228
Phillips, Clement S 29
Physick, Philip 183
Platt, Charles 286
Platt, Mrs. Charles 287
Posey, Dr. Louis Plumer 235
Powel, Col. John Hare 188
Repplier, George S 146
Repplier, Mrs. George S 147
Richardson, John 256
Rittenhouse Birthplace 6
Rittenhouse, David 3
Rittenhouse, Fort 299
Rittenhouse Square, Bird's Eye View ii
Rittenhouse Square, Bird's Eye View, 1857 2
Rittenhouse Square, Flower Show 8
Rittenhouse Square Pool vi
Rittenhouse Square, West 150, 171
Rittenhouse Square with Iron Railings 4
Rittenhouse Square in Winter 30
Roberts, Algernon Sydney, Sr 184
Roberts, Algernon Sydney, Jr 185
Roberts Residence 182
Roberts, George Theodore 238
Roberts, Solomon W 90
Roberts, Mrs. Solomon W 92
Robinson, Edward Moore 213
Rogers, Fairman 166
Rogers, Mrs. Fairman 167
Rosengarten, Mrs. Frank H 179
Rosengarten, George D., Residence 178
Sanford, E. S 56
Scott, Mrs. Eliza Perkins 61
Scott, Lewis A 24
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PAGE
Scott, Col. Thomas A 96
Scott, Col. Thomas A., Residence 97
Shields, Rev. Dr. Charles W 136
Shober, John B 290
Shoemaker, Dr. John V 239
Sibley, Edward A 275
Sibley, Mrs. Edward A 276
Sinnickson, Mrs. Charles P 137
Sinnott, Joseph F 47
Sinnott, Mrs. Joseph F 46
Smith, Thomas Duncan 20
Smith, Robert, Brewery 93
Sparks, Thomas 221, 222
Sparks, Mrs. Thomas 223
Sparks, Thomas, Residence 227
Sparks, Thomas Weston 224
Stevens, Rt. Rev. Wm. B., D.D., LL.D 129
Stevenson, Mrs. Cornelius 186
Stratford Hotel, Old 249
Street Railways 121, 122
Sturgis, Robert S 214
Sturgis, Mrs. Robert S 216
Sylvester, Frederick J 236
Thomas, Rear-Admiral Charles M 43
Thomas, Joseph T 41, 42
Thomas, Mrs. Joseph T 44
Thomson, John Edgar 302
Van Rensselaer, Alexander, Residence 242
Vansant, A. Larue 112
Vansant, Mrs. A. Larue 113
Vaux, Richard 10
Wade, Robert ^ x
Wade, Mrs. Robert §1
Walnut Street, 1815, 1813, 1811 227
Walnut and Eighteenth Streets 246, 255
Walnut and Nineteenth Streets 182
Illustrations xv
PAGE
Wanamaker, Thomas B 107
Weightman, William 254
Wetherill, Samuel Price, Residence 301
Whelen, Charles S 39
Whelen, Henry, Jr 38
Whelen, Townsend 37
White, Floyd H 78
White, Dr. J. William 32
Wilmer, Rev. Joseph Pierce Bell, D.D 264
Wilstach, William P 244
Wilstach, Mrs. William P 245
Wilstach, William P., Residence 246
Winebrenner, David 268
Wister, Jones 209
Wood, George A 284
Wurts, William 280
Wurts, Mrs. William 281
Wyeth, Frank H 123
RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
PAST AND PRESENT
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INTRODUCTION
In the belief that interest attaches to Rittenhouse Square
and to the personality of those identified with its develop-
ment, a brief survey is presented, founded upon personal
Copyright by Moses King
DAVID RITTENHOUSE
1732- 1796
Astronomer. Mathematician. Philosopher. First Director of Mint
Treasurer of Pennsylvania
recollections covering the years 1851 to 1880, with the sub-
sequent knowledge that neighboring interests would convey
up to the present time.
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4 Introduction
Rittenhouse Square, formerly known as Southwest Square,
escaped the fate of those that were used as cemeteries. In
1816 Councils resolved that if owners and occupants of
property in the neighborhood would raise $800 to be lent
to the City for three years without interest, Councils would
close the Square with a fence of rough boards. This was
accomplished and was followed by the tilling of the ground
and sodding with grass. It was about 1825 that this section
Rittenhouse Square with the iron railings which were removed in the year 1885
{Photograph from a print recently presented to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by George H. Frazier)
was named in memory of David Rittenhouse, the eminent
astronomer, philosopher and mathematician, one whom the
people "delighted to honor."
Walter Lefferts, in a late number of our Geographical
Bulletin, refers to the ability displayed by David Ritten-
house when appointed to survey the boundary line between
Pennsylvania and Maryland, so well done that resurveys
Introduction 5
have not been able to detect error in his calculations. Of
the Commission appointed by the Governor were Judge
Richard Peters, of Belmont; Benjamin Chew, of Cliveden;
and Thomas Willing — men whose civic and national patri-
otism have made it possible for us to inherit the privileges
they so successfully accomplished, and the descendants of
whom are our distinguished fellow-citizens of today, sharing
in the responsibilities of communal life.
David Rittenhouse was born in Roxborough (now a part
of Philadelphia), of Dutch ancestors, one of whom was a
maker of paper. To show the bent of mind, it is related of
this youth of twelve years of age that he covered the handle
of the plough and the wooden fences surrounding the farm
with mathematical calculations, and when only eight years
old he had constructed a complete water-mill in miniature,
and at seventeen, the first wooden clock, an example of the
latter being now in the collection at Memorial Hall, West
Fairmount Park. After overcoming many obstacles he
established his reputation as a philosopher and scientist,
succeeding Benjamin Franklin as president of the American
Philosophical Society. His observation of the transit of
Venus was pronounced "the first approximately accurate
result in the measurement of the spheres ever given to the
world." It was due to his initiative that the commission to
determine the northwestern extremity of the boundary be-
tween New York and Pennsylvania was induced to include
the triangle with the site of the City of Erie, within Penn-
sylvania's line, thus giving that important outlet on the
Lake. Rittenhouse filled many positions of honor and trust,
of which may be named: Engineer to the Committee of
Safety, in 1775; supervising the casting of cannon of iron
and brass; engineer in developing the Continental powder-
mill; also the adoption of the chain to protect the river
Delaware from the approach of hostile shipping; the manu-
facture of saltpeter; then he was our first State treasurer;
the first director of the U. S. Mint; professor of astronomy
in the University of Pennsylvania; and prominent in many
other activities.
6 Introduction
In 1834 the Commissioners were ordered to lay out a
street fifty feet wide on the western edge, to be known as
Rittenhouse Street, and on the southern edge, to be called
Locust Street. The wooden fence gave way to the iron
railings in 1853, which later were removed and placed closer
in, making the sidewalk wider, and in 1885 they were en-
tirely removed and placed on the grounds of the University
of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia. (The dimensions of
the Square are 540 feet on each of its four sides.)
Birthplace and home of David Rittenhouse, Lincoln Drive, Fairmount Park
Philadelphia
The Square was surrounded by the white wooden railing
already referred to, with the ordinary wood gate and latch
at stated intervals. There were few houses on any of the
four sides of the Square.
When the iron railing was placed around the Square, it
was intersected by swinging iron gates which were locked
at night toward dusk, the Square-keeper, Dandy Stokes by
name, ringing a bell to give notice, but it sometimes happened
that pedestrians would approach from the Eighteenth and
Walnut Streets corner, not having heard the bell, would
Introduction 7
enter and upon reaching the south side would find the gate
barred, so that it meant passing the night in the open or
climbing the gate, the latter plan being generally adopted,
sometimes to the injury of one's clothing.
In the sixties, the City gas lamps were not lighted upon
moonlight nights. It happened, however, that passing
clouds would obscure the moon, so that stray cows fre-
quently would be encountered, very disconcerting to sober
citizens wending their way homeward.
Chickens and pigs were common visitors on the south
side, where their wanderings were not interrupted by the
traffic that occurred on the other sections of the Square.
The night watchmen called the hours, adding, "All good
people should be asleep."
During the Civil War, 1861-65, the whole Square was
used as a drilling-ground, where recruits were woven into
shape for the Army of the Potomac.
Frederick H. Shelton, a former neighbor, says, "We boys
used to gather at the Square after dark and climb over the
fence, when the constabulary was not looking, and roam
around inside, chiefly, I take it now, because we were doing
something that we were not supposed to do. We used to
spot trees with sparrows' nests in the daytime, mark them,
and at night go and gather them in. The old ladies
were aghast at such slaughter, but many will hold that
aught tending to decimate the English sparrow was to be
encouraged."
The Rittenhouse Square Improvement Association was
formed in 1913, the suggestion coming from Mrs. J. Willis
Martin, who was supported in her effort by a group of
public-spirited and generous men and women who have
created a wonderful change in the aspect of the enclosure —
Nature in its most attractive form and a landscape not
surpassed by any similar improvement in a section of a
built-up city.
Many public functions are now held, notably an annual
Flower Market, which since 1918 has resulted in a financial
return of over five thousand dollars, distributed to many
Introduction
beneficiaries and leaving a proper balance in bank as the
basis for future enterprises of similar character.
In 1920 the Art Alliance had an attractive exhibit of
statuary, the figure of an American youth equipped for war
and voicing the lines from "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic" — "Mine eyes have seen the glory" — by that
eminent sculptor, Cyrus Dallin, who did the "Indian Medi-
Ledger Photo :
Flower Show, Rittenhouse Square, May 20, 1915
cine Man" now in Fairmount Park; the "Wind and Spray
Fountain" by Mrs. Ladd; and the "Totem" fountain by
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney.
Allen's map of the southwest section of Philadelphia,
published by Tanner in 1830, shows Rittenhouse Square so
marked. The streets, like Walnut, were named Eastland
West, Broad Street being the dividing line, and those like
Eighteenth and Nineteenth were named South Schuylkill
Fourth (now Nineteenth Street) and South Schuylkill Fifth
Introduction 9
(now Eighteenth Street), the numbering being from the
Schuylkill River, which was called Schuylkill Front and
South from High (now Market Street), which was the
dividing line, still retained.
In the summer the grass was allowed to grow for weeks,
attaining a good height, when men would come with the old-
fashioned scythe (such as now used with illustrations of
Father Time and the Grim Reaper), and the hay resulting
would be carried away presumably for use in the City stables.
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Allen's map of the southwest section of Philadelphia, published by Tanner in
1830
{Courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
Then in winter, when the gates were locked for many
weeks, our chief amusement was to decide as to the depth
of snow, it being measured by the small round-topped
wooden stools, the only method of seating provided in those
"good old days."
It was not until a comparatively later date, that a U. S.
mailing-box was provided, the first one being placed on the
south side facing Nineteenth Street. Prior to this there
were various forms of local transmission, the chief being
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Introduction
"Blood's Dispatch," but its service was uncertain and the
family's letters were usually carried downtown and posted
in the main office, then on Dock Street below Third.
In the early days an attraction was an enclosure in the
center of the Square; in it were placed a number of deer,
chief of which was a white animal captured at White Haven,
Pa., by William H. French, living at that time at the south-
Copyrlghl by Moses King
RICHARD VAUX
1816- 1895
west corner of Seventeenth and Locust Streets, who was
president of the Philadelphia City Institute, Eighteenth and
Chestnut Streets.
The present chief of the caretakers of the Square is
William W. McLean, who has been identified with its pro-
tection for many years and now, in his ninetieth year, still
maintains a supervision.
One of the pets of the many children was a cat of fine
Introduction ii
breed and handsome appearance. It is interred near the
guardhouse, the spot being annually decorated by young
friends of former days.
Richard Vaux
The portrait of Richard Vaux is shown since he was a
daily visitor to Rittenhouse Square, usually before the
breakfast hour, and always without a hat, enjoying in fullest
measure the early breezes from the fragrant shrubbery.
Mr. Vaux was of picturesque appearance and was a
citizen of marked ability. He was recorder in 1841, con-
troller of the public schools, inspector of the Eastern State
Penitentiary for more than fifty years, and a frequent writer
on penology. He was mayor in 1856 and was instrumental
in creating the office of fire marshal. A director of Guard
College in 1859, he served as president for several years and
was mainly responsible for the early introduction of handi-
craft manipulations, quoting Girard himself: "I would
have them taught facts and things, rather than words and
signs" — the forerunner of our modern manual-training insti-
tutions.
Mr. Vaux succeeded Samuel J. Randall and served a
term in the U. S. Congress. His Democratic admirers
often insisted that he was "Vox Populi." He was Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge of Free Masons of Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM DIVINE, Jr., 83 years of age
WILLIAM STAFFORD DIVINE, 48 years of age
WILLIAM ELLIOTT DIVINE, 17 years of age 1
1 In the U. S. Aviation Service, 1917-18.
1800-1802 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(50' x 100')
1848 — William Divine.
1880 — William W. Frazier.
Beginning on the south side (which is called Locust Street
on the City maps, but which has the euphemistic title of
South Rittenhouse Square), on the western corner of what
Photo by GuWkunsl
WILLIAM DIVINE
1800- 1870
was then known as Schuylkill Fifth Street (now Eighteenth)
there stood a substantial four-story brick dwelling, built
and occupied by William Divine in 1849. Mr. Divine was
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a successful manufacturer of textiles; his mill was nearby,
it having been the place where he was first employed at $i
per day wages, on his arrival from Ireland in 1827 after a
voyage of 21 weeks. Later he became its owner.
Photo by Phillips
WILLIAM DIVINE,
1824- 1909
Jr.
He had contemplated the purchase of Physick's residence
at Nineteenth and Walnut, but considered its price of $20,000
an extravagant figure, although after the completion of his
own structure he found the expenditure much greater.
The house was 25 feet in width, and the garden alongside
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of equal width was parallel with Eighteenth Street. There
were fruit trees in abundance, with an arbor for grapes
and wisteria, and in the center were two stones from the
Giant's Causeway.
MRS. MATTIE J. FLEMING
[Mattie Divine]
1839- 1898
Younger daughter of William Divine
Divine was educated in Belfast, working later in Man-
chester, where he acquired the knowledge of the use of
cotton and wool that ensured his success in our Land of
Opportunity.
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Divine was also a member of City Councils, 1846-50.
Two sons and two nephews were in the 23 d Pennsylvania
Volunteers during our Civil War, proving the Americanism
of the family.
Wm. Divine, Jr., was an active member of the com-
munity and succeeded his father in the control of the mill
properties. He was a director of Girard College, 1861-64.
Shortly before his visit to England to participate in the
opening of the Great Exhibition of 1851 he received the
appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel on the staff of William
F. Johnston, Governor of Pennsylvania and Commander-
in-chief of the Pennsylvania Militia. While abroad a
member of the office force at the mill, Allen Candelet, wrote
him from Philadelphia under date of May, 1851, mentioning
some details of home life and I quote:
Last week the President [Millard Fillmore] and most of the
Cabinet passed through the city en route to open the Erie Rail-
road. The President and Daniel Webster addressed the citizens
from the balcony in front of the U. S. Hotel [north side of Chestnut
above Fourth Street, a ramshackle affair as I remember it but the
leading hostelry at the time noted].
He was well received and warmly but fittingly acknowledged
his reception. Webster spoke at length and as only great men can
speak. He frowned down disunion and opposition to the laws.
It had a telling effect upon a large assemblage and will with the
President's manly address and bearing have their effect upon the
next presidential election.
All our political friends are well and all without exception
desire their most cordial regards to you. Bill Crabbe especially
is warm in his remembrance and I never see him but we do our
utmost to promote "Virtue, Liberty and Independence." They
are of course loafing at present. .
I called at the house [1800-02 South Rittenhouse Square] last
night, sat awhile with Mrs. Divine. Your father was superintend-
ing some repairs at a house in Lombard Street and the children
were all romping in the Square and could not find time to come to
supper.
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About 1883 William W. Frazier removed the old building
and covered the full lot with the present modern structure,
which is now for sale.
Mr. Frazier was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, his
WILLIAM W. FRAZIER
1839- 1921
(Photo by Boissonnas el Tapoaier. 12 Rue de la Paix, Paris)
parents, Benjamin West and Isabella Zimmerman Frazier,
being at that time on a trip to South America. A graduate
of the College of the University of Pennsylvania in 1858, at
the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in a volunteer
regiment and was commissioned lieutenant of the Sixth
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Pennsylvania Cavalry, known as Rush's Lancers, of which
he was later captain. For years he entertained the surviving
members annually at his summer home at Rydal.
After his return from the Army service he entered the
employ of the sugar refining firm of Harrison, Havemeyer
& Co., later becoming a partner in that firm and its successor,
Harrison, Frazier & Co., which was in turn succeeded by
the Franklin Sugar Refining Company, from which he retired
Copyright by Moves King
William West Frazier's residence, Rittenhouse Square, southwest corner
Eighteenth Street
in 1892. Mr. Frazier was interested in the work of the
Protestant Episcopal Church and was for many years a
member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Penn-
sylvania and a vestryman of Holy Trinity Church. Of
his many activities may be mentioned directorship in the
Philadelphia Trust Co., The American Pulley Co., The
Western Saving Fund Society, trustee of the University
of Pennsylvania, treasurer of the Episcopal Hospital, and
trustee of the Hampton Institute. Subsequent to his death
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in August, 192 1, it was revealed that he had been the secret
benefactor of the Eighth Ward Settlement House at 926
Locust Street.
Mrs. William W. Frazier was the daughter of Mr. and
.MRS. WILLIAM W. FRAZIER
1842- 1915
{Photo by Bofssonnas it Taponier, 12 Rue de la Paix, P(tris)
Mrs. George L. Harrison and sister of Charles Custis Har-
rison, LL.D., former provost of the University of Pennsyl-
vania and a man whom we certainly "delight to honor"
for his munificent aid to the University in its various
branches, and of late to the Museum of Archaeology, which
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rivals many of the most celebrated institutions of its kind
in the world.
Mrs. Frazier was the founder of the Harrison Day
Nursery and a patron and generous donor to many char-
ities, among which may be named The Travelers Aid
Society, Children's Aid Society, Women's Directory. She
was a member of Holy Trinity Church.
Photo by Gutekunst
THOMAS DUNCAN SMITH
1812- 18S0
1804 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 100')
1 861 — Mary J. Lankenau.
1867 — Thomas D. Smith.
1890 — Emma Tower Reilly.
No. 1804 was occupied by John D. Lankenau from 1855
until i860, when he removed to the southwest corner of
Nineteenth Street and the Square, about which comment
will be made later.
His successor in 1867 was Thomas Duncan Smith, the
great-grandson of Rev. Wm. Smith, the first provost of the
University of Pennsylvania. William Rudolph Smith at
the Philadelphia Bar, and known to many of us, is the son
of the first-named, whose ancestor on the mother's side was
Michael Hillegas, first treasurer of the United States. Then
there is General Rudolph Smith, who won his spurs in the
war of 1812 and later became Attorney-General of the State
of Wisconsin. In my friend Smith's house on Pine Street
are portraits of Captain Anthony (another ancestor) by
Gilbert Stuart; of the first provost, a copy by Sully from
the original by Gilbert Stuart; the background is a river
scene of the Falls of the Schuylkill, where the Doctor lived.
It is related that, suspected of leaning toward the British
view at the period of the Revolution, he was imprisoned, but
continued to give instruction to his classes and was soon
released with abundant proof of his loyalty to the American
cause.
Later, Mrs. Reilly, sister of the Hon. Charlemagne Tower,
became the owner of No. 1804. The present occupants are
Mr. and Mrs. William Arrott.
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1806 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(32' x ioo'j
c. 1857 — Mary Ann Percival.
1864 — Lewis A. Scott.
A double house with cement front. In 1852 it was occupied
by Miss Marv Ann Percival, with her brother Thomas. One
of my earliest recollections is attending there a children's
party, probably my first, the entertainment having left an
indelible impression.
Lewis A. Scott was born in Philadelphia in 1819. He had
a notable ancestry, the first arrival in this countrv being
Sir John Scott, of Scotland, who reached America in 1700,
becoming a citizen of the City of New York in 1702. His
oldest child was also John Scott, his sons supporting the part
of the Colonies against England. He was mentioned in the
correspondence as one of the triumvirate of lawyers com-
plained of to the British authorities in the Colonial period.
He occupied many positions, political and military,
especially delegate in the Continental Congress, Brigadier
General in the State Militia, honorary member of the Society
of the Cincinnati. His descendants have occupied prominent
positions at the Bar, and in the political life of Philadelphia
from 1807. The Lewis A. Scott, our neighbor, was educated
at Crawford's School, Fourth below Arch, a graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania and a member of the party of
surveyors engaged in the survey for the Philadelphia & Erie
Railroad Company. Later, he was admitted to the Bar in
1841, and had the reputation of being an able and skilful
attorney, maintained by consistent application to study
while in the active practice of his profession. He was en-
gaged in many important causes, especially in those relating
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to real estate. He was vigorous in maintaining the peace
during the native American riots in 1844 while his father
was mayor of the City.
Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he became enthu-
siastic in the support of the Federal Government, was one of
MARY ANN PERCIVAL
1799- 1881
the earliest members of The Union League, and was secretary
on the staff of Col. Pleasanton, Commander of the Home
Guards.
His wife was Frances A. Wistar. Mr. Scott was a
member of many historical and scientific associations, was
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an expert Egyptologist, and had written extensively on
anthropology.
His oldest son, Hon. John M. Scott, dwelt here as a
member of his father's household, but later established his
own "vine and fig tree.''
He served for some years in our State Legislature, and
L. A. SCOTT
1819- 1896
it has always been a matter of regret that he withdrew from
this activitv, since it is to men of his tvpe that we look for
the development of the best in government.
Senator Scott's brother, Alexander, was here until his
marriage in 1920.
Miss Hannah Scott continues as a resident, establishing
probably the longest continuous familv domicile in the Square.
1808 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 100')
— Anna Phillips.
— Trustees Emeline Griffiths.
— Mary H. Griffiths.
iSsi — Edward T. Dobbins.
This was built at the same time as No. 18 10 and was for
Mrs. Griffiths, a sister of Mr. Clement S. Phillips. During
one winter in the fifties it was occupied by Mrs. Pierce Butler
[Frances Anne Kemble] and her daughter with her husband
Canon Leigh, the son of Lord Leigh, of Stoneleigh Abbey.
Fanny Kemble was the daughter of Charles Kemble
and niece of Mrs. Siddons, both famous in the theatrical
world of that day. Her first appearance on the English
stage was as Shakespeare's Juliet, and then Portia, but her
crowning triumph was as Julia in Sheridan Knowles's master-
piece, "The Hunchback," written expressly for her.
After her marriage to Pierce Butler, of Philadelphia,
they lived on the Butler estate in Georgia, but, having
pronounced anti-slavery views, dissensions arose, Mrs.
Butler obtained a divorce, and for years lived in retirement
in New England. 1
Resuming her maiden name, Frances Anne Kemble
appeared as a reader of Shakespeare, and one of my precious
memories is her presentation of both comedy and tragedy
at our Academy of Music, making a lasting impression by
her magnificent presence, a voice flexible, ample and har-
monious, with a remarkable self-possession. The only one
who has approached this excellence was the late Doctor
Horace Howard Furness, whose readings were a delight
1 Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-183°, by Frances
Anne Kemble. New York, Harper & Bros., 1863.
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and joy second only to those of Mrs. Kemble, whose example
gave the suggestion and impetus to Dr. Furness as related
to me last spring by the late Dr. Morris Jastrow, to whom
it had been imparted.
In 1 88 1 Edward T. Dobbins and his sister became the
owners; the latter has survived her brother and is still a
FRANCES ANNE' KEMBLE
1809 - 1893
i From thi palnlinn by sir Thomas Lawn net
resident. Mr. Dobbins was a member of the firm of John
Wyeth & Bro., manufacturing chemists. His relaxation
was the driving of a stylish buggv with a tast horse in the
park and through the surrounding country roads. He was
a brother of Richard ]. Dobbins, the contractor for Memorial
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Hall, the Art Building for the Centennial Exhibition in
Fairmount Park, now containing the exhibits under the care
of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art.
Edward T. Dobbins was a member of the Colonial
Society and of the Sons of the Revolution and a member of
The Union League.
EDWARD T. DOBBINS
1S41 - 1906
1810 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(22' x 100')
1850 — Clement S. Phillips.
1885— J. William White, M.D.
No. 1 8 10 was the home of Clement S. Phillips where he
dwelt for many years; there were three sons, George Brinton,
William and Clement, the last two my companions in our
morning walk to Dr. John W. Faires' Classical Institute on
Dean Street below Locust in the fifties and early sixties.
Mr. John Phillips (the brother of the senior Phillips) had
made a study of the art of engraving; he presented his
unrivaled collection of engravings to the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts with a generous endowment, the
income therefrom to be used for its care.
Mr. George Brinton Phillips has responded to the request
to give his personal recollections, an extract from which
follows :
Some Early Recollections of Rittenhouse Square
By George Brinton Phillips
The residence, No. 1810 South Rittenhouse Square, into which
we moved in 1850, was built for my father, Clement Stocker
Phillips, and owned by him, and we lived there for more than
thirty years.
I remember Col. Thomas A. Scott's house, on the Nineteenth
Street corner, had a beautiful drawing-room and a ballroom
decorated in the Egyptian style; charming balls and entertain-
ments were given there by Mrs. Scott, a most gracious hostess.
In those days, when "Society" was much smaller than now,
social functions were given in private houses and not in public
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halls as has been the custom in later years; the handsome family
silver, glass and china decorated the table; I recall a "coming-
out" ball given for my sister at No. 1810 in the late fifties.
You have asked me for some particulars of my father's career.
He was never engaged in business, but served for some years on
CLEMENT STOCKER PHILLIPS
1809- 1879
the Board of City School Directors. He was a member of the
Old Fish House Club, the historic "State in Schuylkill," famous
for its dinners cooked by the members, and its "Fish House
Punch," which may have proved a consolation when the "gentle
art of angling," once a joyous pastime to its members on the river,
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had survived only as a cherished memory. My father was well
known as a keen sportsman, famous for his skill in shooting such
game as birds and ducks, as well as an expert fly fisherman, and
had the reputation for alluring the wary trout from streams when
others failed. He contributed an article on "Sea Fishing at
Narragansett" in Thaddeus Norris' well-known book, and, in
addition to his knowledge of the art of angling, had mechanical
ability, shared by several other members of the Phillips family.
Rittenhouse Square in winter
In those days, good fishing paraphernalia were difficult to
obtain, and my father made many light split bamboo fly rods for
his own use and as presents to his friends. The clergy are some-
times enthusiastic fishermen, and Bishop Phillips Brooks and the
Reverend Charles Cooper, friends of my father, often accompanied
him on such expeditions.
Rittenhouse Square in the early fifties contained some fine old
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forest trees; one great spreading willow grew at the southeast
corner, and at one time some tame deer were enclosed in the center.
The Square was the pleasure ground frequented by the remote
as well as by those who lived around it. In the afternoons of the
springtime it was the meeting-place of fashionable society, and
on Sundays the promenade from the churches in the neighbor-
hood. Patriotic functions were held there during the Civil War,
as well as in recent times, and I can recall when the War broke out
in 1S61 and at the first "call to arms" I had volunteered as a
private in the Commonwealth Artillery, I took a parting look at
its springtime foliage on the way to join my Company.
To those whose good fortune it was to have lived around
Rittenhouse Square and looked from their windows upon it, the
memory of those primeval forest trees, refreshing to the eye in
the summer with their splendid foliage, and in the winter covered
with snow, or sparkling ice, will always be a happy thing to dwell
upon.
After Mr. Phillips' death, the house was purchased by
Dr. J. William White, a greatly beloved citizen, dominant
in the affairs of the University of Pennsylvania, an intimate
friend of the late Theodore Roosevelt, and a man whose
influence was widely recognized. A few years since a
memorial tree was planted in the Square in recognition of
Dr. W 7 hite's commanding personality.
This is a brief excerpt taken from an admirable biography
by Agnes Repplier, who has graciously granted permission
for its insertion:
The Whites are of English ancestry; our notable friend was
the son of Dr. J. W. White, first president of the S. S. White
Dental Manufacturing Company, prior to which he had been a
practicing physician of marked ability, noted as a successful
diagnostician.
The first important event in the career of our Dr. White was
his engagement as Hydrographic Draughtsman to accompany
Professor Agassiz on the latter's exploration expedition to the
South Atlantic. He writes to his father, "Agassiz says he can
teach me more comparative anatomy in a month than I shall ever
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learn in a year at College." He adds, "The Professor is down
on the Darwinian theory, so, although I believe in it at present,
I think I'll renounce it for a year. He is going to let me buy a
shot-gun, the bill to be sent to him; which is the most expensive
kind?"
Among his many activities were his professional resi-
dence at Blockley, at the Eastern Penitentiary, Surgeon to
the Citv Troop, and always athletics, which he taught by
precept and example. Perhaps some may remember the
famous duel that was fought on the Maryland-Delaware
DR. J. WILLIAM WHITE
1850- 1916
{Photograph from the painting by J ohn S. Sargent, noic in the University of Ptnn^i/ln.nia)
border between himself and Robert Adams, Jr., arising
over the request from Dr. White as Surgeon that he should
be permitted to wear the same uniform as that prescribed
for the Troop. Neither of the participants was injured,
and years after, the point having been yielded in the
Doctor's favor, a reconciliation was effected.
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The passion for athletics colored Dr. White's life,
affording him the pleasures of his youth, the enthusiasms
of his middle age, and the adamantine convictions which
lasted until his death.
Mrs. White is still a resident, active in all good com-
munal work.
Photo by Broadbent L £- Phillips
THOMAS C. PERCIVAL
1802- 1876
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WILLIAM ROTCH I [HANSON
1810- 1884
1812 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(22' x 100')
1863 — Hannah A. Hanson.
1879 — Robert H. Hare.
1885 — Catharine Smith.
1892 — Mary E. Lee, wife of Edmund J. Lee, M.D.
This house was built and occupied by Thomas C. Percival,
a prominent merchant in his day and the brother of Mary
Ann Percival, who lived at No. 1806, to which reference has
just been made.
Mr. Percival's widow died recently; her father was
John K. Helmuth of the Grange, then far out of town, but
now the site of the Ridgway Branch of the Philadelphia
Library. William R. Hanson occupied it in 1863; he was
born in Dover, N. H., and, coming to Philadelphia in his
sixteenth year, entered the house of David S. Brown, with
whom he was associated for many years.
Robert H. Hare was the next owner; he was the brother
of Hon. John Innes Clark Hare, Judge of our Court of
Common Pleas and the son of Dr. Robert Hare, a celebrated
chemist with a world-wide reputation. Professor Edgar
Fahs Smith, of the University of Pennsylvania, has written
a biographv of this noted man, showing wherein he was
famous and the many inventions and discoveries that he
gave to the scientific world.
Dr. Hare's granddaughter became the wife of Sussex D.
Davis, who happily is still with us. Mr. and Mrs. Davis
lived here until the latter's death. She is remembered by
her friends as a woman of great sweetness of disposition
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combined with remarkable literary accomplishments, render-
ing her companionship a delight to those who had the
privilege of association.
In 1892 it came into possession of Dr. and Mrs. Edmund
J. Lee, who are still resident there. Mrs. Lee is the
MRS. SUSSEX D. DAVIS
[Mary Fleeming Hare]
1846- 1885
{From a miniature by Brown)
daughter of Charles Smith, the well-known banker, whose
office was at 303 Chestnut Street. Mr. Smith was inter-
ested in numismatics, taking special pride in an exceptional
collection of gold coins issued by the State of California.
1814 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 100')
1851 — Sarah Y. Whelen.
1900 — William P. Henszey.
1909 — Mary L. H. Ashton, wife of Thomas G. Ashton.
No. 1 8 14 was one of three built at about the same time;
this one being owned and occupied by Townsend Whelen,
banker and broker and founder of the firm of Townsend
Whelen & Company, about 1853, succeeding the firm of
Edward S. Whelen & Co., of which Mr. Lejee was a partner.
TOWNSEND WHELEN
1822- 1875
Townsend Whelen served 25 years as a vestryman and
warden of the Church of the Atonement, was a trustee of
the Yeates Institute Fund, and a member of the Standing
Committee of the Diocese.
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There were several sons : Henry, my own age, a graduate
of Annapolis, and in the U. S. Navy for a number of years,
finally resigning and entering the banking house. He mar-
ried Miss Baker, the daughter of William S. Baker, one of
the Council of the Historical Societv of Pennsylvania, and
Copyright by Moses Kina
HENRY WHELEN, Jr., 1848-1907
himself possessed of a wonderful collection of Washing-
toniana. Charles, some years younger (who married Miss
Violett, of New Orleans), who also entered the banking firm;
and Dr. Alfred Whelen, a physician of note.
The sister is the wife of William Rudolph Smith, previ-
ously referred to as at No. 1804.
The Whelens have a notable ancestry. At the opening
of the Revolution, Israel Whelen became an enthusiastic
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supporter of the patriotic cause, and as Commissioner signed
the first issue of Continental Currency. His grandfather
was James S. Whelen, a native of England, who married, in
New York, Sarah Dennis, granddaughter of Maria Jacques,
a French Huguenot, who had fled to South Carolina after
Copyright by Moses King
CHARLES SMITH WHELEN,
1850- 1910
the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Although Israel
Whelen was a member of the Society of Friends, he entered
the patriot army and became the Commissary General.
With the return of peace, he rejoined the Society with which
he was in full sympathy. He was buried at Fourth and
Arch in the Friends' ground.
In 1900 William P. Henszey, a member of the firm of the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, purchased this property, had
it extensively reconstructed, and presented it to his daughter,
the wife of Dr. Thomas G. Ashton.
1816 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 100')
— Anthony J. Drexel.
1856 — Joseph T. Thomas.
1875 — Samuel B. Thomas.
1889 — George F. Huff.
1899 — Dorothy Barney Harding, wife of J. Horace Harding.
1903 — Joseph F. Sinnott.
1904 — Annie E. Sinnott, wife of Joseph F. Sinnott.
This house was built by Townsend Whelen's brother,
Edward, who lived afterward at 1520 Walnut Street, ad-
joining what is now the Middle City Bank.
Joseph T. Thomas, attorney and counselor, was a man
of many talents, and, in addition to his celebrity at the Bar,
was a fine Shakespearean scholar and of a most affable dis-
position.
He was a member of the State Legislature for several
terms, was a stalwart Republican, but was finally defeated
during his last campaign. I sat next to him in the Walnut
Street car as we were riding home, and since he seemed to
be greatly depressed, in answer to my inquiry as to his
health he replied, "I am not ill but am up the spout," a
new expression to my youthful mind, which had to be ex-
plained later upon reaching home.
During the Civil War, entertainments were given for the
benefit of the Sanitary Commission, one that I recall being
a reading at the old school house, Twelfth and Locust Streets,
in which Mr. Thomas took part with my parents, selections
being from Shakespeare and Thomas Hood, so that the
audience might have a varied program, a plan still in general
use.
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The only son was Charles, who entered Annapolis and
attained the rank of rear-admiral. On the entrance of the
16 battle-ship fleet in the year 1908 to the Golden Gate at
San Francisco, Thomas' flag went up as in supreme com-
mand. He was a man of the highest principles and a
charming companion.
The surviving daughter is Mrs. George de B. Keim,
whose husband was a prominent politician serving a term
as sheriff and later was a candidate for the mayoralty.
JOSEPH T. THOMAS
1817- 1890
At the time of the Centennial, Mrs. Thomas and her
daughters, who were linguists, entertained distinguished
foreigners visiting Philadelphia; the nights were warm,
the rooms being of moderate size, the chairs and those of
their neighbors were placed on the side-walk in the open,
and many memories were carried away of cordial hospitality.
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From Mrs. Ellet's book, "Beauties and Celebrities of the
Nation," describing a reception in Washington fifty years
ago:
The belle of the evening was recognized in the person of Mrs.
Joseph T. Thomas, of Philadelphia, by far the most elegantly
JOSEPH T. THOMAS
Aged 50 years
dressed and queenly-looking woman present. Indeed, at every
assemblage and on every festive occasion of this season, Mrs.
Thomas had been noted for beauty, superior bearing, and her rich
and tasteful attire.
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Mrs. Thomas is a native of the valley of Virginia, and was
educated in Richmond, where her piquant and graceful manners
and her excellent qualities of heart won hosts of admirers and
lasting friends. She was married at the elegant country-seat of
her uncle, Colonel Tuley, of Virginia, to Mr. J. T. Thomas, a
REAR-ADMIRAL CHARLES M. THOMAS, U.S.N.
1847- 1908
member of the Philadelphia Bar; they reside on Rittenhouse
Square, in that City.
Mrs. Thomas possesses the peculiar charm of southern women,
a blending of grace and dignity, of cordial frankness, and winning
ease. Her true hospitality has been proved by many visitors.
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Mrs. Thomas was over 90 years of age at the time of
her death, having been cared for by her daughter, Mrs.
George de Benneville Keim, with a loving solicitude — a fine
example to many of the present generation.
James Horace Harding was here for some time; he was
of the firm of Charles D. Barney & Co., bankers. Mr.
Harding's wife is the granddaughter of Mr. Cooke.
MRS. JOSEPH T. THOMAS
1824- 1916
{From the engrailing by H. B. Hall, New York, in Mrs. E. F. Ellel's
Nation")
'Beauties and Celebrities of the
Mr. Harding is the donor of the statue of Jay Cooke,
the noted financier of the Civil War, with whom he was
closely associated in many of his later business activities
and for whose sterling worth and great abilities he had much
admiration, a feeling largely shared by Americans.
The statue was presented in October of last year to the
City of Duluth, of which Mr. Cooke is called "The Father,"
he having practically founded the city and given to it the
first acclaim that has brought to it prosperity and fame.
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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Sinnott succeeded Mr. Hard-
ing in the ownership of this property. Mr. Sinnott was of
the firm of Moore & Sinnott, noted distillers.
Jules E. Mastbaum has recently become the owner of
No. 1816.
Copyright by Moses King
James Horace Harding residence, 1816 South Rittenhouse Square
Newport, March 7, 1862.
Dear Charlie:
I received your sweet and affectionate communication of the
25th ult. and have hardly words sufficient to express my satisfac-
tion at its contents. I was exceedingly glad to hear of the great
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success of your cadet-corps, and I might as well add, that I was
very much pleased with the graphic description you were so kind
as to give me. Please receive my best thanks, dear Charlie, for
the carte de visite you sent me in your last, and rest assured that
Photo bi/ Mnmide hell
MRS. JOSEPH F. SIXXOTT
1842- 1918
I shall ever value it as a remembrance of the many boyish days
that we have passed so very pleasantly together. The picture is
not half as handsome as you are, dear friend, but nevertheless I
shall ever prize it and preserve it carefully. I think, if you
could see our battalion, composed of I So midshipmen, drill, that
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you would be astonished at the great proficiency we have attained
in the short time of five months. Two crews practice rowing every
clear afternoon, while the other eight crews are drilling either with
muskets or with the heavy guns on the spar deck. When you
Photo by Goldensky
JOSEPH F. SINNOTT
1837- 1906
write again, which I hope will be soon, you must give me all the
news around town, and tell me how you are getting along in chess;
speaking of chess, I don't think that it would be amiss to add that
I would give almost anything to have a good game of chess with
either vou or Sol.
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As the drum will beat in five minutes for dinner, I must bring
this communication of mine to a close by wishing to be remem-
bered to all as if named. Believe me ever your very affectionate
friend.
Charles M. Thomas,
U. S. Navy.
P. S. I am very jubilant over the late decisive Union victories.
All hail to McClellan.
The foregoing letter was written by my friend and com-
panion when he was a student at the U. S. Naval Academy,
which had removed to Newport, R. I., during the Civil War.
The Cadet Corps referred to was the one initiated by M.
Hlasko, a dancing-master with rooms at the Natatorium on
the east side of Broad Street, between Walnut and Locust
Streets. On the second floor the dancing lessons and balls
were given and on alternate days the cadets drilled. Sub-
sequently Major Eckendorf took charge, after whom the
Corps was re-named. During my service Lewis Ashmead,
who lived on Pine Street above Eighteenth, was the captain,
and Lewis Koecker, son of Doctor Koecker, Walnut Street
above Thirteenth, was a prominent member. I was 14
vears of age and was proud of participating in a military
play staged at our Academy of Music; one of its features
was the sleeping at his post of a sentry (Koecker) who was
tried by summary court-martial and condemned to be shot
at sunrise of the following day. At the approach of the
fatal moment a trooper dashed up with a reprieve based on
the culprit's former high military record; I was one of the
firing squad of four detailed for this soul-stirring event.
And then there was a parade, including the march out
Walnut Street where the cobble-stone pavement proved a
severe test for us youngsters, since we carried the old-
fashioned muzzle-loading gun with knapsack and regalia.
As an evidence of his ability and the esteem in which he
was held I have secured a copy of the following letter:
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Philada., Penna.,
24th Jan'y, 1887.
The Hon. Wm. C. Whitney,
Sec'y of the U. S. Navy, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
I beg leave to express my appreciation of the services and char-
acter of Lieut. Com. Chas. M. Thomas, U.S.N., who served under
my command on board the flag-ship "Hartford" on the Pacific
coast during the years 1885 and 1886. I commend Lieut. Com.
Thomas for his high moral character, which gave him a position
among the officers of the "Hartford" enabling him to control his
surroundings by his personal influence. I recognize his possessing
that peculiar power of governing men by appealing to their better
natures instead of the punishment imposed by law. On two
different occasions the Governor of Valparaiso told me "that he
gave the 'Hartford' a warm welcome to that port because the
crew behaved so well while the ship had lain there; not a sailor
having ever been arrested by the police, a thing that had never
happened with a man-of-war of any other nation visiting that
harbor for a lengthened stay." I attribute the fact to Lieut. Com.
Thomas's tact in raising the tone of the men's character and taste
by different methods, such as interesting himself in their amuse-
ments and encouraging and guiding them to a high grade of
recreation. During six months of the cruise, he was in command
of the flag-ship, her captain having been invalided; he performed
the duties to my entire satisfaction. He kept the ship in a state
of perfect discipline, cleanliness and readiness for service. He also
performed the duties of coast-pilot with ability and decision.
Yours very resp'ly, etc.,
E. Y. McCauley,
Rear-Admiral, U.S.N.
1818 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 100')
c. i860 — Robert Wade.
1864 — William E. Bowen.
1875 — William H. Woodward.
1888 — Mary Parrish Starr, wife of Louis Starr, M.D.
1913 — Susan H. Siter.
1915 — Annie E. B. Siter, wife of E. Hollingsworth Siter.
Mr. Robert Wade was of the firm of Wade & Butcher, the
Sheffield manufacturers of hardware of world-wide repute.
His daughter, who was born in this house, years afterward
became the wife of Richard C. Dale, of whom mention will
be made later.
William E. Bowen was of the firm of Browns & Bowen,
bankers, at 209 Chestnut Street as early as 1857; now
Brown Bros. & Co. at Fourth and Chestnut. After Mr.
Bowen's death, a son and several daughters occupied the
house for a series of years; they were held esteemed members
of the community. One of my earliest recollections is ac-
companying my father in the sixties to the former address
to see their manager, Mr. Kirtley, who was the type of an
English banker (with all the polish and finish so well
described by Thackeray), to arrange with him for a letter
of credit which my father was taking out prior to a visit to
Europe, leaving me as paymaster.
The oldest son was Ezra Bowen, who lived afterward at
1629 Walnut Street, the house subsequently changed by
Frank E. Morgan to the present apothecary establishment,
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AIRS. ROBERT WADE
1820- 1899
ROBERT WADE
1819- 1887
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which was built by Mr. Bucknell who lived next door on the
northeast corner of Seventeenth and Walnut; he mentioned
at his club that he would sell the property for half its cost
rather than keep it. Mr. Ezra Bowen, sitting nearby, took
Mr. Bucknell at his word, becoming its owner.
To return to No. 1818: residents for years were William
W. Arnett, his sisters and an uncle, William H. Woodward,
the owner of the property. Miss Harriet Arnett became
T7"ix>ri Jinuxnixr.
77:— z-:^77;-.-t:
I I I I I K E 3fe
ME I : ii j M 1 1
Pi, ¥\ If
BAN K«<OM M E RC E
iff iff
Iff Wffi
W J' I ■»■"
Browns & Bowen, No. 55 Chestnut Street, in 1851. Now No. 209 Chestnut
Street
(From "Experiences of a Century," by courtesy 0/ Brown Brothers & Company)
the wife of Doctor Levis, who lived on the northwest corner
of Sixteenth and Walnut Streets, later the home of Dr.
D. Hayes Agnew.
In Arnett's day, the agitation arose for the removal of
the iron railings; a protest was submitted to a Committee
of Councils; inquiry was made as to the impression left with
the Committee; its spokesman replied "To hell with the
ladies — they have no vote." How conditions have changed!
In the year 1875 William G. Boulton was a resident; he
was of the firm of John Dallett & Co.
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ALEXANDER BROWN AND HIS FOUR SONS
Alexander Brown, 1764-1834
George Brown, 1787-1859 Sir William Brown, 1784-1864
John A. Brown, 1788-1872 James Brown, 1791-1877
(From "Experiences of a Century," by courtesy of Brown Brothers & Company)
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Dr. Louis Starr was a most successful practitioner with
young children, and his departure from Philadelphia has
always been regretted. Dr. Starr and Dr. E. Hollingsworth
Siter made manv changes in the exterior construction of the
house.
Copyright by Moses King
EZRA BO WEN
1830- 1901
1820 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 100')
— Edward S. Sanford.
1856 — Thomas Hart.
1870 — Lucius H. Scott and Eliza P. Scott.
— Lucius S. Landreth.
1888 — Charles Hacker.
i8 93 — Sarah Earle Hacker.
1919 — George W. Norris, M.D.
Edward S. Sanford was born in Massachusetts and joined
the New York office of Adams Express Company in 1842.
A man of strong mental powers, with cultivation and aspi-
ration, he proved his ability while resident agent in Phila-
delphia, being regarded as one of the most able of express
managers and proprietors.
Thomas Hart became the owner in 1856 and disposed of
it in 1870, living afterward at 1421 Spruce Street with his
daughter, Mrs. William B. Van Lennep. Mr. Hart was a
member of the Philadelphia Club, and his wife was Rebecca
Anna Reeves, the daughter of David Reeves, of Philadelphia,
the creator of the Phcenixville Iron Works, giving an in-
centive to the great industry that has developed in that
section. His father was also Thomas Hart, an officer in the
"State in Schuylkill." His great-grandson, the present
Thomas Hart, has recently completed a record of the Hart
family covering the years 173 5-1920, which it has been my
privilege to consult; it is replete with interesting incidents
of early Philadelphia life.
Reginald Lawrence Hart was the son of Thomas Hart
named above. He was a graduate of the Towne Scientific
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School of the University of Pennsylvania, a member of the
fraternity Delta Psi and stroke of the University crew,
1879 to 1881. He was a member of the Athletic Association
of the University and of the Merion and Radnor Cricket
E. S. SANFORD
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Clubs. In commercial lite he was the manager in Philadel-
phia of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S.
Harrv Reeves Hart was also a son of Thomas Hart. In
early life he was associated with the noted paper Judge,
THOMAS HART
1819- 1893
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published in New York, and among the first of the illustrated
humorous weeklies to amuse the millions of America's
readers.
Mrs. Eliza Perkins Scott was descended from the
Hewlings family, a collateral branch of which had married
Photo bv Gutekunst
MRS. THOMAS HART
[Rebecca Anna Reeves]
1825- 1869
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Bishop White, whose daughter was the wife of Robert
Morris, in whose honor there is soon to be erected in Phila-
delphia a statue to mark his important work accomplished
in the successful financing of the Revolutionary War.
REGINALD L. HART
1858- 1917
(.Courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Class History, 1879)
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The present family of Landreths are direct descendants
of Mrs. Scott.
Charles Hacker was President of the Charleston, S. C,
Mining and Manufacturing Company. Our friend Mrs.
HARRY REEVES HART
1857- 1910
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Morris Hacker says that her cousin-in-law, Charles Hacker,
was deeply interested in the daughter of Samuel G. Goodrich
(Peter Parley), to whom reference will be made later.
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MRS. ELIZA PERKINS SCOTT
1800- 1887
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The owner and resident is now Dr. George W. Norris,
whose great-uncle, Mr. Henry Norris, lived upon the Walnut
Street side of the Square and of whom comment will be
made when that section is reached.
Photo by Phillips
CHARLES HACKER
1829-1893
1822 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(24' x 100')
1855 — Zophar C. Howell.
i860 — John H. Brown.
1892 — Alice B. Fox.
No. 1822 was a vacant piece of ground owned by Zophar C.
Howell, and was sold about the year i860 to John H. Brown,
who had come from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia in 1843,
crossing the mountains by stage coach and canal, frequently
returning to his birthplace to visit his father, a noted iron-
master, an interest still continued by his grandsons.
Mr. Brown was in the wholesale dry goods business at
307 Market Street, a property held by the family until a
recent date; he was a director in the Bank of North America
from 1846 until 1866.
Mr. Brown was tall and stately in appearance, and the
books and paintings with which the interior of the house is
furnished indicate the cultivated tastes he was enabled to
gratify through years of well-earned leisure.
Mr. Brown's daughter, Alice, married Dr. Charles W.
Fox, and they continued to reside here. Dr. Fox was born
in Nashua, N. H., was a graduate of Harvard and served
in the 44th Massachusetts Regiment in the Civil War. At
its close he studied medicine, and although not in active
practice was deeply interested in the progress of the pro-
fession as well as in literature and the arts. He died in 1919.
Mrs. Fox is still a resident.
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JOHN HUSTON BROWN
1809- 1888
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Photo by Broadbent
DR. CHARLES W. FOX
1843- 1919
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ZOPHAR CARPENTER HOWELL
1811 -,1902
Taken on his ninetieth birthday
1824 AND 1826 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(36' x 100')
c. 1855 — Zophar C. Howell.
1863 — Theodore Cuyler.
1885 — Emily T. White.
1888 — Louise B. Drexel.
1898 — Deborah Tower Janney.
1907 — Thomas P. Hunter.
Zophar Carpenter Howell was born in Albany, N. Y.
His ancestor, William Carpenter, shared with Roger Wil-
liams in the group of thirteen purchasers of Rhode Island
and was also one of the founders of the First Baptist Church
in America. He was a friend of Roger Williams, and was a
member of the General Court, 1658 to 1672. In 1675 Car-
penter and his neighbors were attacked in their settlement
by hundreds of Indians who were finally repulsed; this was
during King Phillip's War and is mentioned to indicate the
trials the forefathers experienced and what honor is due
their memory for their bravery and perseverance.
The manufacture of wall-paper in America began in the
year 1790 when two Englishmen, John Howell and his son,
set up primitive machinery in two rooms in the rear of their
home in Albany, N. Y., and from this has developed an
important industry having a far-reaching effect.
Nos. 1826, 1828 and 1830 were three houses built at the
same time by Zophar C. Howell, the manufacturer of wall-
paper referred to, whose mill was around the corner below
Spruce above Nineteenth; he occupied No. 1826.
Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale lived in Boston, engaged in
literary and editorial work, the Ladies' Magazine being under
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her charge until it was merged with Godey's Lady's Book.
Her removal to Philadelphia followed, and she resided at
No. 1826 South Rittenhouse Square in the early sixties.
Her daughter, Miss Sarah Josepha Hale, conducted here an
MRS. ZOPHAR C. HOWELL
[Rebecca Louton]
1816- 1870
excellent school for young ladies, being the precursor of
many that have given Philadelphia high repute as an edu-
cational center.
The Hales are descended from pre-Revolutionary stock,
and are related to the Reverend Edward Everett Hale, who
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is well remembered by his epoch-making narrative, "The
Man without a Country," published at the opening of the
Civil War. I can remember its stimulus to patriotism
shared by millions of Americans, another evidence that the
"Pen is mightier than the Sword."
FRANCIS CARPENTER HOWELL
1839- 1878
{Photo by Chandler & Scheetz, 8B8 Arch St., Philadelphia)
To return to our adopted citizen: Mrs. Sarah Josepha
Hale was noted as a poet and writer. Concerning her early
book, Poems for Our Children, she writes: "The poems in
the little book were written to be set to music for the
primary schools of Boston and my design in writing was the
allegory that should teach and move the heart of childhood
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to love whatever things were good and pure and lovely that
came within its circle of observation or care in life"; and
again, "Children who love their parents and their home can
soon teach their hearts to love their God and their Country."
There are but three copies of Mrs. Hale's book extant;
in the one now in the possession of Mary Stockton Hunter
and Sarah Hale Hunter, granddaughters, there appears the
MRS. SARAH JOSEPHA HALE
1788- 1879
{After an engraving of a portrait by T. Buchanan Read, painted about 1855)
well-known ditty, "Mary's Lamb," which begins — "Mary
had a little lamb; its fleece was white as snow." The
Misses Hunter also have the original manuscript with
many letters and autographs that are interesting and
valuable.
Mrs. Hale was the president of the Philadelphia branch
of the Woman's Union Missionary Society, and it is recorded
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that "she was the first woman who labored to rouse the
church to send the educated woman physician to bear the
blessings of health to heathen women."
MRS. SARAH JOSEPHA HALE
1788- 1879
In her ninetieth year
(Engraving by J. C. Bultre from photograph by Suddards & Fennemore, Philadelphia)
This letter is an indication of the period:
Phila., May 3, 1861.
From Miss Sarah Josepha Hale to her friend in Princeton.
You see mother has stopped taking the Herald. She says
she can see lies enough without paying for them; consequently
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the Ledger is all we have to depend on, so I thought if you would
send me the Tribune now and then I could get along; my school
is becoming fine by degrees ... so I do not by any means think
of giving up any more than Lincoln does.
MISS SARAH JOSEPHA HALE
1820- 1863
The southern scholars were leaving on account of the
impending civil war.
Mrs. Hale's son was Horatio Hale, a graduate of Harvard,
where he was distinguished for his ready acquisition of lan-
guages, and while an undergraduate was chosen to fill the
post of philologist to the United States Exploring Expedition
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commanded by Captain Wilkes, which discovered the Ant-
arctic Continent and explored many islands and coasts,
completing a four years' voyage round the world.
This was the Captain Wilkes who removed Mason and
Slidell, Confederate emissaries, from the British steamer
"Trent" in 1861, an act that was widely applauded in the
North, but could not be maintained under international law.
A reference to Miss Lucretia Hale, of a collateral branch,
and author of the Peterkin Papers, may be acceptable, so I
quote from an address on "The Development of the Park-
way," delivered before the Fairmount Park Art Association
by Sylvester Baxter, secretary of the Preliminary Metro-
politan Park Commission (1892-93) and of the recent Metro-
politan Improvement Commission (1907-09) for Greater
Boston :
Philadelphia, January 11, 1910.
In our part of the world we have grown to have great faith in
the advice of a certain "Lady from Philadelphia" — a faith firmly
established by our dear Miss Lucretia Hale, of blessed memory.
It was very level-headed advice which the "Lady from Philadel-
phia" gave to the Peterkin family, and it got them out of a multi-
plicity of troubles. Since the Peterkins invariably sent for the
"Lady from Philadelphia," perhaps it is no more than fair that
there should be a certain reciprocity, that accordingly you should
now and then send for a Man from Boston — although none of us
can hope to be of the service to Philadelphia and to all the world
that was performed by the great Bostonian who came hither with-
out being sent for and achieved enduring fame in consequence.
Several women envious of the reputation achieved by
the "Lady from Philadelphia" have claimed to be the orig-
inal, but the question has been definitely and satisfactorily
settled by an investigation through Mr. John Ashhurst,
librarian of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
The original is Susan, wife of J. Peter Lesley, our eminent
geologist. Charles Hale was our consul-general at Cairo,
Egypt, in the year 1867, and Lucretia Hale, his sister, was
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a lifelong friend of Mrs. Lesley; they traveled together when
in Europe, thus cementing a friendship of long standing.
Mrs. Hale was identified with the Ladies' Magazine and
Godey's Lady's Book for forty years, during which period
THEODORE ) CUYLER
1821-1876
she conducted an active correspondence with the several
Presidents at Washington and with the Governors of the
States and Territories, urging a united and uniform adop-
tion of the Thanksgiving Day, an effort that was crowned
with success during the administration of Abraham Lincoln.
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75
Frances, the daughter of Mrs. Hale, married Dr. Lewis
Boudinot Hunter, U. S. Navy, and their son was Richard
Stockton Hunter of our day, prominent at the Bar and a
welcome friend in the home and club.
MRS. THEODORE CUYLER
1829- 1892
No. 1826 was acquired in the year 1863 by Theodore
Cuyler, who afterward built an extension on a vacant piece
of ground to the east, making his house an attractive and
commodious residence. Mr. Cuyler is well remembered as
a distinguished member of the Bar, a man of great talent
and of general acquirement. He was the first president of
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the Social Art Club, which occupied a spacious house on the
north side of Chestnut Street near Sixteenth, and is now
domiciled on Walnut Street, opposite our Square; the name
having been changed to the Rittenhouse Club.
Mr. Cuyler was a member for some time of the Phila-
delphia City Council, one of his notable achievements being
the adoption of the present system of numbering houses,
which previous to that time had been so numbered as to
cause great confusion. The new system has become a
standard for many cities the world over. He was eminent
as the counsel of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was a member
of the Board of Education, President of Select Council, a
member of the Constitutional Convention of 1873, and one
of the commissioners of Fairmount Park. In commenting
upon his qualities, a friend stated: "As a speaker, he was
correct, persuasive and impressive." Mr. Cuyler's neighbor,
of whom mention will be made, frequently heard his voice
resounding through the walls of the adjoining house when
he was reciting a formal address, the effect of which he desired
to practice prior to its final delivery.
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin of July 23, 1921,
commenting upon the proposed revision of the constitution
of the State of Pennsylvania, refers to Mr. Cuyler as follows:
In tracing the influences which led to the formulation of many
of the vital principles now embodied in the organic law of the
State, one cannot fail to recognize the handiwork of Theodore
Cuyler, whose long and varied professional career was identified
with scores of important cases, including many a cause celebre in
both the local and federal courts. Among these were the cele-
brated Christiana treason case, in which Castner Hanway and
thirty-one residents of Lancaster County were charged with refusal
to aid a deputy marshal in capturing two fugitive slaves who had
escaped from Maryland, and the trial of Henry Hertz, indicted for
enlisting soldiers in Philadelphia to serve in the British Army
during the Crimean war. It was in great corporation cases, and
principally as counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad, however,
that Mr. Cuyler achieved his lasting legal reputation, and his
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eloquence in forensic appeal was matched by the lucidity with
which he analyzed abstruse technicalities. In the midst of his
professional activities, he yet found time for public service, the
public schools, City Councils and the Fairmount Park Commission,
of which he was one of the original members, claiming his atten-
tion during the height of his career.
The most noted of Mr. Cuyler's family is the present
Thomas De Witt Cuyler, now president of the Rittenhouse
Club, and a factor in legal and railroad administrative work.
Some of Mr. Cuyler's contemporaries remember him as
prominent in the many stone fights indulged in when groups
of our boys were attacked by ragamuffins, now termed
"hoodlums," who frequently descended upon our neigh-
borhood, being recruited from the river-front, noted in
those days for its Schuylkill Rangers.
Floyd Hall White was a great-great-grandson of William
Floyd, a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer
of the Declaration. of Independence. He was a member of
the Sons of the Revolution. He received his education at
the Nyack, N. Y., Military Academy and at an early age
entered the wholesale dry goods house of Atwood, White
& Co., of which firm his father was a member. Then he
became secretary and treasurer of the Camden & Amboy
Railroad Company, and later assistant secretary to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company division when the latter
assumed control. On his return from a European trip he
accepted the position of secretary-treasurer of the American
Dredging Co.
In 1888 General Morrell, who had married Miss Louise
B. Drexel, became a resident and remained for a number of
years. Brigadier General Edward de V. Morrell was born
in Newport, R. I., and filled a large place in Philadelphia's
life, being identified with the National Guard of Pennsyl-
vania as colonel of the Third Regiment and later Inspector-
General and Judge-Advocate General. I quote from General
Orders issued by the Governor and Commander-in-Chief,
September 1, 1917, the day of his death:
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General Morrell rendered valued and conspicuous service in
both military and civil life. As a soldier he had high ideals and
was a thorough yet tactful disciplinarian, respected alike both by
superiors and subordinates. He was an ideal leader of men and
enjoyed the fullest confidence of all with whom he came in contact.
Photo on Phillips
FLOYD H. WHITE
1843- 1893
His boundless energy, unfailing courtesy, and strict devotion to
duty were both an example and an inspiration.
He held many positions of honor, trust and responsibility in
the civic affairs of the Nation and State, and brought to each
place an earnest, faithful, conscientious performance of duty.
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79
General Morrell was a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania and was admitted to the Bar in 1887. For
several years he served as a member of Select Council, later
being a member of the 56th, 57th, 58th and 59th Congresses.
opyright by Moses King
EDWARD de V. MORRELL
1863- 1917
He was a member of the Philadelphia Board of Education
for several years and a director ot the Pennsvlvama Com-
pany for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities.
General Morrell married Louise Bouvier, daughter ot
Francis A. Drexel. Thev were an important factor in the
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social life of the city. He was a step-son of the late John
G. Johnson, leader of the Philadelphia Bar, whose unrivaled
collection of works-of-art is one of the greatest acquisitions
Philadelphia has received through his generous bequest to
the municipality. His mother was a sister of Robert Hare
Powel, of whom mention will be made later.
Photo by Evans
THOMAS P. HUNTER
1861 - 1915
General Morrell was a member of many clubs, of which
may be noted the Philadelphia; Rittenhouse; Racquet;
Rose-Tree; Fox Hunt; Radnor Hunt; Rabbit; State in
Schuylkill; Philadelphia Country; Corinthian Yacht;
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The Union League; Germantown Cricket; St. Anthony;
and 'the Society of Colonial Wars.
Thomas P. Hunter was a native of Ireland and came
to America to seek his fortune, which he accomplished
when reaching the presidency of the Acme Tea Company.
Copyright by Moses King
Robert Miller Janney residence, 1826 South Rittenhouse Square
Mr. Hunter was a lover of animals and flowers and took
delight in gratifying this taste on his estate at Haverford
and took many prizes at dog and pigeon shows, as also
when he exhibited at flower displays.
Robert Miller Janney was here in the year 1898.
This property has just been acquired by George H.
Earle, Jr., who, it is stated, will use it as his city residence.
1828 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 100')
c. 185 1 — Joshua Tevis.
1856 — Henry Cohen.
1S95 — Ernest Laplace, M.D.
My father, Henry Cohen, lived on Rittenhouse Square
for nearly thirty years, and perhaps a few words of his per-
sonality may be permitted.
Photo fiy (lulfkunal
HENRY COHEN
1810- 1879
His grandfather, Joseph Cohen, came to America in
1792, settling in Lancaster, Pa., later in Charleston, S. C,
and in Philadelphia; he was a linguist and served as House-
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hold Rabbi in the homes of the Gratz family. Returning
to London, his wife having died here, he re-married and
Solomon Cohen and Henry Cohen were my grandfather
and father, the latter coming to Philadelphia in 1837, open-
AIRS. HEXRY COHEN
I.Matilda Samuel, Liverpool, 1843]
1 820- 1888
<itvr> by Thomas Hargreaves, Associate of Sir Thomas Lawrence)
ing an establishment for the sale of imported stationery at
wholesale on Chestnut Street below Fourth.
In 1844, visiting Europe, he met my mother, Miss
Matilda Samuel, of Liverpool, whom he married and brought
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to Philadelphia. Their first home was at the Washington
Hotel, situate on the north side of Chestnut Street above
Seventh, subsequently taking the house No. 2 Clinton
Square, on the south side of Chestnut Street, the second door
above Broad, the site of the present Land Title & Trust Com-
pany, and it was there that I was born. Astonishment was
expressed by my father's friends that a residence should
be selected so far west, since the heart of the residential
Southwest corner of Broad and Chestnut Streets. Second door above Broad
Birthplace of Charles J. Cohen, now the site of the Land Title & Trust
Company's building
section was on Fourth and Sixth Streets; however, the new
situation was open ground and the location was considered
eligible. In those days there were freight tracks in the
center of Broad Street, and shortly after the family's
occupancy there was a crash of coal cars nearby which
caused the collapse of all the shelving in the butler's pantry,
resulting in the loss of the splendid sets of Copeland china
that my mother had brought with her, so that a change
was desired, and in 1851 the family, consisting of my
parents, my older sister and myself, moved to No. 15 (now
No. 1828) South Rittenhouse Square.
After some time, the house was sold without my father's
knowledge to Joshua Tevis, and as the adjoining one on
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the west, No. 16, was for rent, we moved therein. In
1856 Tevis died, my father bought No. 15, into which we
moved, using long boards stretched across the windows of
Pholo by Gutekunst
MRS. HENRY COHEN
In 1876
1820- 1888
the back buddings on the different stories, placing the
household articles in large baskets with rope attached
which were drawn across, emptied and returned, an expedi-
tious method of removal.
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At the time of the Civil War, Henry Cohen had passed
his fiftieth year and was not available for active service in
the field, but he was an earnest supporter of the Federal
cause, an early member of The Union League, and at all
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Placard Issued by Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, Calling for Volunteers
for the Defence of the State, June, 1863
times a contributor to the many funds raised for the benefit
of the Army and Navy.
At the time of the crisis preceding the battle of Gettys-
burg, as a member of the Blue Reserves Home Guard he
participated in the erection of the fortifications thrown up
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on the northern and western sections of the City as the
Confederate approach became imminent.
After my father's death in 1888 the house was rented for
a few years and finally sold to Dr. Ernest Laplace, a dis-
tinguished member of the medical profession.
Copyright by Moses King
JOSEPH HENRY
1797- 1878
Of men noted in literature who visited our home I recall
Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in
the middle fifties; he was a scientist of distinction; his
papers on electricity and magnetism commanded wide
attention and he "did more toward the development of the
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science of electricity than any other American since the
time of Franklin. He was the inventor of the principle of
telegraph relay which made possible telegraphy over con-
c-xA^o^ (( Uj
S. G. GOODRICH
"Peter Parley"
1793- 1860
{From an engraving by Bannister of a daguerreotype)
siderable distances. Also originator of the principle of the
telegraph, while Morse invented the instrument first used
for this purpose." 1
1 New International Encyclopaedia.
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Samuel G. Goodrich was the "Peter Parley" of the
juvenile books of our childhood; they attained great popular-
ity, being amusing as well as instructive. After his visit my
father remarked, "Charles, my boy, you must never forget
that you have sat upon the knee of the man who has con-
tributed to the happiness of many thousands of the youth
of our country and whose memory should always be held in
grateful appreciation."
It should be stated further that Goodrich was the author
of many books of history and geography as well as tales of
ancient and modern life — in all more than 170 volumes, of
which over seven million copies have been sold, and in the
middle fifties their aggregate sale was three hundred thou-
sand copies annually. Goodrich was U. S. Consul in Pans,
1848-52. Some of his books were translated into French
and were well received.
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SOLOMON W. ROBERTS
1811 - 1882
1830 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 100')
— Zophar C. Howell.
1856 — Solomon W. Roberts.
1883 — Anna D. Scott.
1913 — Samuel P. Wetherill.
1921 — Allied Realty Co., Inc.
Solomon W. Roberts was engineer-in-chief and superin-
tendent of the North Penn Railroad, and was possessed of
an extensive and valuable library. In early years he had
been engaged as civil engineer in the construction of the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Of Welsh origin, it is of interest
to note that more than a majority of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence were of Welsh birth or of
immediate descent.
His daughter, Mrs. John W. Roberts, my neighbor, has
a fine replica by Thomas Sully of the portrait of the late
Queen Victoria painted for the St. George's Society of
Philadelphia.
His wife was the daughter of Ellwood Shannon, noted
dealer in teas, who had been my father's fellow-passenger
from Europe in the early thirties.'
After Mr. Roberts' death the house was rented to Mr.
Percy M. Lewis, son of Edwin M. Lewis, president of the
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank, a power in the
financial world in those days.
1 Mrs. Roberts was born in Carlisle, England, and had a most attractive
personality.
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Photo by WUlard
MRS. SOLOMON W. ROBERTS
[Jane Ellwood Shannon]
1834- 1869
1832-1834 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(50' x 100')
— Robert Smith.
1867 — Thomas A. Scott.
1913 — Samuel P. Wetherill.
1921 — Allied Realty Co., Inc.
Robert Smith, brewer of Smith's ale; a successful business
man but not conservative in his investments. Alighting
from a Walnut Street car at Eighteenth, he, my father
Robert Smith's Brewery, northwest corner Fifth and Minor Streets [now
Ludlow Street] in 1871
{Sketched by Kennedy. Courtesy of Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
and I walked through Rittenhouse Square in the sixties,
and the burden of his conversation was to the effect that my
father was making a mistake in following the details of a
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commercial enterprise when money could be invested in
Dalzell Oil Company, the shares then at a moderate price,
and in the course of a few months would advance to an
unprecedented figure, since there was an inexhaustible
supply of oil in active demand, and a certain fortune was
CHARLES GIBBONS, 1814- 1884
beyond peradventure. The next day my father purchased
ioo shares at the market price, soon it advanced a fraction,
and, under the family advice, he sold at a point to cover the
two commissions; within a year, the Oil Company collapsed
and Robert Smith was a great loser, as a result of his own
sanguine belief in the success of the investment.
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This house was subsequently occupied by Charles
Gibbons, Sr., a member of the Bar, and prominent in the
affairs of The Union League. At the celebration at Inde-
pendence Hall of the victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg,
July 7, 1863, he delivered a patriotic address which stirred
• MRS. CHARLES GIBBONS, 1814-1884
unbounded enthusiasm; a band of music had been stationed
in the steeple which gave "Old Hundredth," the enormous
crowd joining in singing, producing a most impressive effect.
Mr. Gibbons was also a prominent member of the Committee
of the Bar to receive contributions for the support of the
families of volunteers.
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Adjoining on the west, which would be No. 1834, in the
earlv days, was an ice-cream saloon which was removed and
a stable erected in its place; the neighbors, however,
objected, citing a clause in the original grant of land that
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Photo by Phillips
COL. THOMAS A. SCOTT, 1824-1881
President Pennsylvania Railroad Co. 1874-80
such was prohibited. The stable was removed and Col.
Thomas A. Scott, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, acquiring the properties, erected a handsome
dwelling thereon, later enlarged by the purchase of No. 1830.
Mr. Scott was born in Franklin County, Pa., and was edu-
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cated in the country school, although he obtained assistance
from friendly students in Franklin and Marshall College.
As a youth he took a clerkship in the office of the collector
of tolls at Columbia, Pa., then, coming to Philadelphia,
occupied positions in several shipping houses, finally entering
the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad, where he soon
displayed exceptional ability which the management early
recognized, and he became general superintendent. It was
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Thomas Alexander Scott residence, 1S30 South Rittenhouse Square, corner
Nineteenth Street
at this time that the company purchased the road from the
State for 13 millions of dollars to be repaid in annual instal-
ments. Then the Civil War followed, and Scott was called
to Washington to become Assistant Secretary of War with
rank of colonel of volunteers. Chaos that had existed was
soon dispelled under his master hand and the Government
recognized his powerful aid at that critical time in a most
appreciative manner.
In 1874 Scott succeeded John Edgar Thomson as presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which position he held
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until failing health in 1880 compelled his retirement. He
was also president of the Texas & Pacific Railway, being
finally succeeded by Jay Gould, who paid a large money
consideration for Scott's interests in the company.
Some of us remember the critical period of the panic of
1873, when "five or seven name paper" for millions was out-
standing in connection with the last-named company, but
Scott, confident of its ultimate success, weathered the storm.
When the Union Pacific Railroad was in trouble, upon
earnest solicitation he became its head, and by indefatigable
labor confidence was restored and prosperity assured.
There is an incident that may be stated: At this time,
when Col. Scott was mentally distressed as to the outcome
of his financial engagements, a friend from out of town
entered his office and placed on the table a package, saying,
"Col. Scott, you and I have been friends for many years;
if the contents of this package are going to be of service to
you in the present emergency, use them to the best advan-
tage as your judgment may indicate, and when the crisis is
over you can return the package to me." The friend left
and when Col. Scott opened the bundle it was found to
contain over a million dollars in gilt-edge securities, a true
evidence of friendship. This was a potent factor in Scott's
rehabilitation.
Within the decade just closed, these three properties,
1830-32-34, have been purchased by Samuel Price Wetherill,
and the apartment building known as No. 1830 has been
erected in their stead.
On the east side of Nineteenth, just south of Ann Street
(now Manning), extending toward Spruce, there was erected
a saw-mill in the decade of the sixties. This caused a flutter
among the neighbors on account of the danger to life
and property from such a hazardous establishment, to which
was added a prohibitive fire-insurance rate. The land was
purchased, the saw-mill removed and substantial residences
erected.
On the northeast corner of Nineteenth and Spruce an
attractive double-front brick dwelling was built where lived
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Honorable Morton McMichael, a fellow-citizen famous as
an orator and editor from his early manhood. During the
period of the Civil War he devoted his energy and ability
through the columns of The North American and United
States Gazette, of which he was the owner and editor, to the
earnest support of the cause of the Union; this journal was
a potent factor, being widely read by business men and
considered an authority on all public questions. Then we
shall always acknowledge our debt of gratitude for his
HON. MORTON McMICHAEL, 1807 - 1879
powerful interest in the improvement and development of
the people's great pleasure ground, he having served as
president of the Park Commission 1867-79. He was mayor
of Philadelphia 1865-69, bringing to the duties of the office
consummate skill in adding to the City's attractions and
governing the various departments with dignity and success.
Other positions of honor were conferred, so that it may be
said that he was, indeed, a most notable citizen. The only
surviving son is Hon. Charles B. McMichael, president
Court of Common Pleas, who has inherited his father's love
of literature and has recently indited a deeply interesting
chapter of early memories of his honored father's career.
SOUTHWEST CORNER NINETEENTH STREET AND
RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
1900-1902 South Rittenhouse Square
(42' x 95')
1852 — Francis M. Drexel.
1870 — John D. Lankenau.
1902 — Thomas B. Wanamaker and Mary Lowber Wana-
maker, later Mary Lowber Thomson.
Francis M. Drexel, founder of the banking firm of Drexel
& Company. The house at that time had its front entrance
on the south side of Rittenhouse Square. Mr. Drexel was
an artist and traveled extensively, especially in South
America, where he received many commissions for portraits
of the distinguished men of the period. Returning to
Philadelphia he realized the advantage to be derived from
embarking in banking and was successful beyond anticipa-
tion. The firm attained great repute, ably supported by
his sons and successors. 1
Mr. Drexel lost his life bv alighting at Nineteenth Street
from a train on the Reading Railroad, which in those days
came through Callowhill and Willow Streets, drawn bv
horses, and in stepping off with his bag he lost his footing
and was crushed under the train.
His sons, Francis A. and Anthony J., who composed the
banking firm in the sixties and seventies, lived with their
father for a number of years until they acquired separate
homes.
1 For portions of this account I am indebted to the privilege of consulting
the volume entitled Historic Families of America, edited by Walter W.
Spooner.
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Francis A. Drexel, although the elder of the two brothers,
was of a modest, retiring disposition and invariably referred
to his brother Anthony as the directing head of the firm.
Frank, as he was called by his associates, had hosts of
friends who enjoyed his hospitality and admired his unob-
trusive gifts to many charities, embracing hospitals and
homes, and especially to individual pensioners numbered
FRANCIS M. DREXEL
1792- 1863
by scores — men and women who had been reduced from
affluence to the need of assistance that should not meet the
public gaze.
Anthony Joseph Drexel's business career was begun at
the age of thirteen in the banking house of his father, and
with the parent Drexel firm in Philadelphia his whole active
life was identified. It was essentially due to him that the
world-wide extension of the Drexel interests was attained;
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the history of the banking business of which he was the head
was the history of his life.
The distinguishing aspect of the business of the Drexels
was the volume of the resources and their constant utiliza-
tion for purposes of a public or semi-public nature. In each
of the several departments of national, state and municipal
loans and financial services to railway and similar great
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FRANCIS A. DREXEL
1824- 1885
corporations, the Drexel transactions have aggregated many
hundreds of millions of dollars.
From the memorial address bv Bishop Potter:
Mr. Drexel was distinguished above all by a moral nobleness
in business, a kind of financial statesmanship touched with the
finest sensibility and lifted to the most exalted conception of great
responsibility and opportunities. There is no test of character at
once so searching and so final as the possession, in whatever kind,
Past and Present 103
of great power. He was a man who, holding a great power, wielded
it for the greatest good ; who held up the weak, sustained the public
credit, befriended tottering fortunes and enterprises, and all this
in a fashion of such modest and unobtrusive naturalness that we
who saw him or knew of his doings never saw how great they were
until he himself was taken away and we beheld them in their true
light.
From the 50th anniversary volume of the Fairmount
Park Art Association:
In his private beneficences, Mr. Drexel was one of the most
liberal men of his time, his benefactions being extended to churches
of all denominations and to every hospital, dispensary, home and
benevolent organization in Philadelphia, as well as to countless
individuals. He was one of the earliest and most generous con-
tributors to the University of Pennsylvania in its recent develop-
ment. In conjunction with his friend George W. Childs, he estab-
lished the Childs-Drexel Home for aged printers at Colorado
Springs, Colo.
The Drexel Institute of Philadelphia was founded and endowed
by him and he had the satisfaction of seeing this great institution
in full operation before his death, an example worthy to be followed
by philanthropists throughout the land. In addition to the cost
of the building, equipment, library and endowment, amounting to
two million dollars, he bequeathed to the Institute an additional
one million dollars. To the organization of its fundamental plan
and to the details of its administration, he devoted a most con-
scientious care, aiming to make it a factor for the practical encour-
agement of art, science and industry. His chief motive was a
deep sympathy for young people who are obliged to make their
own way in the world, and all the courses of instruction were
formulated with this end in view, at the same time seeking to
avoid tendencies which might make them dependents. He occu-
pied the position of president of the Board of Managers of the
Drexel Institute until his death.
The private life of Mr. Drexel was characterized by qualities
of honorable, sincere and noble manhood. His personal friends
were the notable men of the time. Unassuming and modest, he
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r.~«&- <:
A. J. DREXEL
1826- 1893
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avoided all public prominence, having declined the office of
Secretary of the Treasury tendered by the President of the United
States. Inheriting the artistic development and tastes of his
father, he was an enthusiastic collector of objects of art, of which
JOHN D. LANKENAU
1817- 1901
his possessions ranked among the best selected and most valuable
in the country.
At the time of the foundation of the Fairmount Park Art
Association in the year 1871, a committee, being assured of his
interest in art and in the welfare of his native city, tendered him
the presidency; he accepted the honor, considering it a distinction,
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and retained the office until his death, presiding at the meetings
of the Board of Trustees and always willing to give time and
attention to the man}- problems, financial and otherwise, that
confronted the management in the early years of its career. In
fact it is recognized that the formation and additions to the
Permanent Fund were made possible by the knowledge that his
guiding hand would ensure stability to the investments.
FRANK LAXKENAU
It is believed that the presidency of this Association (save only
the Drexel Institute) was the only executive position that he con-
sented to accept.
After the senior Mr. Drexel's death, Mr. John D. Lank-
enau, then living at No. 1 804, who had married a daughter
of the senior Drexel, moved to the house described, and later
improved its appearance both in and out. Mr. Lankenau is
well known as a patron of the German Hospital (now known
as the Lankenau Hospital), a splendid institution, which has
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107
assumed the name of its chief benefactor. His only son
Frank died when a youth.
Following Mr. Lankenau's death, the property was
finally |acquired by the late Thomas B. Wanamaker, who
had it 'entirely reconstructed under the guidance of McKim,
THOMAS B. WANAMAKER
1861- 1908
Mead & White. 1 The interior of the building has been
splendidly arranged and decorated and it is hoped some day
it may become the home of a Maecenas or of an organization
that would appreciate its attractive surroundings.
1 Mr. Wanamaker's widow subsequently married Dr. Archibald G. Thom-
son, a son of Dr. William Thomson, a noted ophthalmologist and a brother
of Frank Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Dr. William
Thomson's wife was Rebecca George, of the family to whom Philadelphia is
indebted for the acquirement of George's Hill in Fairmount Park.
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Thomas B. Wanamaker was the son of Hon. 'John Wan-
amaker and was associated with his father in the successful
conduct of the establishment of worldwide reputation. He
was an alumnus of Princeton class of 1883. His wife was
Photo by (lulckvn*/
WILLIAM BARTON HOPKINS,
1853- 1904
M.D.
Mary Lowber Welsh, daughter of the late Samuel Welsh
and niece of the Hon. John Welsh. Mr. Wanamaker was
a trustee of both the Jefferson and Presbyterian Hospitals.
As the owner of The North American, a daily journal, he had
an important influence in the community.
1904 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 95')
1856 — Fanny M. Taylor.
1878 — Cornelia Taylor.
1889 — William Barton Hopkins.
Dr. William Barton Hopkins had married the widow of
Alexander McKim, of Baltimore. Dr. Hopkins was the
grandson of Dr. Samuel Hopkins and grand-nephew of Dr.
John Rhea Barton. He was surgeon to several hospitals
and published many valuable articles, his book on fractures
being widely read.
Later Dr. and Mrs. Roman were residents.
1906 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 95')
1856 — Charlotte S. Engles.
1888 — Mary W. Schott.
Miss Mary W. Schott has lived here for twenty years. Her
father, William Schott, was a manufacturing chemist at
4.0 Market Street sixty years ago; he lived at 1522 Walnut
Street in the early sixties.
Miss Schott is an ardent member of Holy Trinity Church
and actively engaged in many good works of charity and
uplift.
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1903 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 95')
1866 — John E. Gould.
1871 — Peter Munzinger.
1889 — Mary J. Hopkins.
John Edgar Gould was a musician of note, as also a mer-
chant, since he had an establishment for the sale of pianos
and organs at the southeast corner of Seventh and Chestnut
Streets and later at 923 Chestnut Street when the firm was
Gould & Fischer. Mr. Gould was a composer of sacred
music for men's voices, collections that have been used by
the Orpheus and other male organizations; he was also an
organist of ability, having served the Presbyterian congre-
gation at Seventeenth and Spruce Streets for some years.
At the store at Seventh and Chestnut it was the custom to
have weekly gatherings for the rehearsal of glees; notable
at these were Michael Cross, Aaron Taylor, Decatur Smith
and Dr. H. Clarke. Gould went abroad on account of
failing health and died in Algeria.
Miss Letitia McKim was a noteworthy resident here,
having served during the recent war at Soissons in French
hospital work.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Edwards are the present
tenants.
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1910 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(20' x 95')
— A. Larue Vansant.
1S64 — John R. Neff.
1893 — Mary Irwin Agnew.
1916 — Charles S. Wesley.
Abraham Larue Vansant was the owner and lived here
for many years. His ancestors came from Holland in 165 1,
settling in New Amsterdam, later migrating to Bucks
County, Pa. He is remembered as an active supporter of
the Union during the Civil War, a liberal contributor to
various institutions, and was president of the Board of
Trustees of the Alexander Presbyterian Church.
His trotting teams were well known in Fairmount Park.
For years he had a prominent establishment of fine
fruits at the southeast corner of Tenth and Chestnut Streets
and later at Ninth and Chestnut Streets under the Conti-
nental Hotel, a place recalled by the older members of the
present generation.
His son, the present Dr. E. L. Vansant, eminent as a
throat specialist, is an officer in the order of the Founders
and Patriots of America and prominently identified with
the West Walnut Street Presbyterian Church.
As early as 1858 L. Montgomery Bond lived here. I
remember him as a man of delightful manners and with
cultivated tastes. He was active in the affairs of Holy
Trinity Church, being a member of the committee of five
in the year 1855 to organize the new congregation, to select
the site and to arrange for the erection. From 1864 Mr. and
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Mrs. John R. Neff, Jr., owned and occupied this house for
years. Mr. Neff's father was president of The Philadelphia
Saving Fund Society, and his son, the present Jonathan C.
Neff, is vice-president of the Fidelity Trust Company.
Mrs. Neff was the daughter of Judge Cilley, of Savannah.
Photo by Draper A Busted
A. LARUE VANSANT
1820- 1894
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In the house was a fine library and on the upper floor a
workshop, thus providing occupation for both mind and
body. Mr. Neff was a member of the Philadelphia Club,
the City Troop, Sons of the Revolution, and many other
organizations.
MRS. A. L. VANSANT
1836- 1872
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A later owner has put on a new stone front, making an
attractive exterior.
Mrs. Mary Irwin Agnew was the wife of Dr. Erwin
Agnew, a cousin of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, so well remembered
as a distinguished surgeon who added celebrity to the fame
Photo by Gilbert & Bacon
MRS. JOHN R. NEFF, Jr.
[Josephine Maria Cilley]
1832- 1909
Past and Present
ii5
of Philadelphia for its repute as a center of knowledge in
the sciences as to both theory and practice.
Mrs. Agnew is spoken of by those who were her intimates
as the "old-time wife, mother and home-maker, with a rare
devotion to many charities done in a quiet but effectual
manner."
Photo by Dunshee
JOHN R. NEFF, Jr.
1828- 1903
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The present owner and resident is Charles S. Wesley, a
distinguished member of our Bar and associated with the late
Ernest L. Tustin, who did much in municipal affairs to raise
the standard of city official life.
MARY IRWIN AGNEW
[Mrs. Erwin Agnew]
1845- 1914
With her grandson Erwin Agncw Fiero
1912 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
(22' x 9s')
— Ann Dunnohew.
1853 — Henry Croskey.
1886 — Henrietta B. Wyeth.
The owner and occupant was Henry Croskey, lumber mer-
chant, who built the house and lived here from 1853 with
members of his family as late as 1886; his daughter, Miss
Croskey, later the wife and widow of Mr. Mustin, married
William S. Lloyd, recently deceased, who was notable for
his wonderful collection of the history of Robinson Crusoe,
probably the most extensive outside of the British Museum.
His library at his home in Germantown was well arranged,
and he delighted to show his treasures to an interested
visitor.
Mrs. Mustin's (now Lloyd) son by her first husband is
Captain H. C. Mustin, United States Navy, a man famed for
many important inventions adopted by the Navy Depart-
ment, successfully used during the recent war.
Henry Croskey was a native of Philadelphia, born in 181 5
of English and Scotch ancestry, his father, George Duncan
Croskey, being descended from the Croskeys of Fleet Street
Parish of St. Brides, London, who married Eliza Ashmead,
one of the belles of Philadelphia, in 1808. Her mother
was Mary Mifflin, of the family of Governor Mifflin, and her
father Captain Ashmead, of Revolutionary fame.
At fourteen years of age, on the death of his father, Henry
Croskey in 1829 continued the lumber business at Broad and
Race; in 1830, at the square of ground, Arch and Filbert,
Eighteenth and Nineteenth; and finally at the wharves on
the Delaware below Green Street.
He early became interested in our street railways, was
president of the Ridge Avenue Railway Company, and for
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forty consecutive years was secretary and treasurer of the
Board of Presidents of the City Passenger Railways of Phila-
delphia, organized in 1859. It is amusing to recall the oppo-
sition that existed to the introduction of the innovation,
HEXRY CROSKEY, 1815- 1899
which was characterized as a destruction to property inter-
ests, and I can well remember the protests made by residents
of West Walnut Street, including those facing Rittenhouse
Square, reciting the dire results certain to follow the laying
of tracks and the running of horse-cars. However, the Fifth
and Sixth Streets line had been successfully inaugurated,
property values had advanced rather than the reverse, so
that when the subscription books were opened in the neigh-
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119
borhood of Twenty-second and Chestnut Streets for the
Chestnut and Walnut line, the crowd was so great that my
father reached the office in time only to find that the books
were closed, all the shares having been taken.
mrs. henry croskey, l819-1892
Evolution ok Street Railway Transportation in
Philadelphia
From 1 85 1 to 1858 the horse-drawn omnibus was in
general use on many of the streets of the City, and during
the winter the substitute was a large open sleigh, seats
arranged lengthwise on both sides, with straw in the middle,
usuallv drawn by four horses, their principal route being
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down Chestnut and up Walnut Street from Eighteenth to
Front. Of course, prior to the laying of the tracks, there
was every facility for good sleighing, since the snow was
soon packed down and usually lasted for a good part of the
winter season.
The first horse-cars were operated over the Fifth and
Sixth Streets route and ran from Kensington to Morris
Street, and for many years it was the main line for pas-
sengers to reach the terminus of the steam railroad to New
York City, the station for which was in Kensington.
Subsequently, the line was extended to Frankford, upon
which were used cars with a dummy engine; their coming
was heralded by much snorting, groaning, shrieking of
whistles, and clouds of smoke and dust. Occasionally they
drew trailers which were old horse-cars converted into
double-deckers by the use of a spiral stairway of light iron,
hooked to the rear end of the car as a means of access. The
great objection to their use was the disturbance to horse-
drawn vehicles, since the unaccustomed sight frightened all
classes of horses, irrespective of their breeding.
On lines where traffic was of moderate character, one-
horse cars were substituted, which were called "bob-tails,"
the driver sitting in front, making the necessary change and
watching the box in which the fares were dropped, in addi-
tion to his responsibility to drive the horse; and many were
the opportunities given to boys — and even young men — to
steal rides on the rear platform, which was left unguarded.
These one-horse or "bob-tail" cars were operated for
years on Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets, skirting Ritten-
house Square on its east and west sides; they were a source
of keen anxiety to the parents of the youngsters, who in-
sisted upon the practice of free riding just referred to. 1
In those days all the cars, even the best, were lighted
1 For many details of an intensely interesting character refer to an article
by "Penn" in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and to a pamphlet published
in the year 1S58 (now in the library of Hon. Hampton L. Carson), entitled
A Consideration of the Subject of The Central Passenger Railway . . . Proposed
to Be Run from Second to Tiventv-third Street via Walnut and Chestnut Streets.
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121
with oil lamps, one at each end, the floor covered with straw,
which on rainy and snowy days soon became objectionable,
so that many and loud were the complaints from the social
r-r*Hn iirrorrT^rr-i
Illustrations from the treatise by Alexander Easton, C.E., of Philadelphia,
1859, shoving the advantage of street or horse-power railways over the omnibus
system. The double-decker was in use on the line running from West Phila-
delphia to Darby, one of our week-end vacation trips
{Courtesy of Philadelphia Library)
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worker of the day as to the danger of disease arising from
such conditions. But the people were patient, and it was
not until a much later period that all this was discontinued
and the modern car was developed, first with the cable
system, by which the car was drawn by connection with
a cable inserted in a tube lowered between the tracks and
operated by a stationary plant placed at certain intervals;
and then, in the year 1892, by the electric traction system;
so that today, with its modern rolling stock, the equip-
TIIK" IIADDO.V "('Alt
DchiIik'c] fur Inr Camden A II, -i (III oilfield Passenger IUiIwviv
The "H;i<M<>n" Car designed for the Camden and Haddonfield Passenger
Railway by Alexander Easton in 1859
(Courtesy of Philadelphia Library)
ment is not surpassed by that of any other community and
equalled by few, if any.
To two men are the present modern conditions due: to
Edward T. Stotesbury for the far-seeing and practical finan-
cial support that he has given to its rehabilitation, and to
Thomas J. Mitten for the physical development and unparal-
leled management which has followed his conduct of affairs. 1
To return to Henry Croskey's activities, it should be
stated that he was deeply interested in church work, having
1 I have also had the opportunity of consulting the Chronology of Street
Railway Development in Philadelphia prepared by C. B. Fairchild, Executive
Assistant to Mr. Mitten.
Past and Present 123
been largely instrumental in financing both the Tabernacle
Church (which stood on Chestnut above Eighteenth, now
the site of the Belgravia Apartment House) and the Beth
Eden Baptist Church at the northwest corner of Broad and
Spruce, recently removed to give place for an cffice building
for the Atlantic Refining Companv.
FRANK H. WYETH, 1836-1913
His son, Dr. John Welsh Croskey, formerly surgeon of
Wills Eye Hospital, is now senior ophthalmic surgeon to
the Philadelphia General Hospital, ophthalmologist to the
Home of the Merciful Saviour for Crippled Children, and
consulting ophthalmologist to the Annie R. Warner Hospital
at Gettysburg, Pa.
In 1887 Mr. Frank H. Wyeth acquired the property, made
a number of changes, including an attractive approach from
the street, with a new front; it was his pleasure in declining
years to sit in his second-story front room in the bay window.
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surveying the beauties of the Square at all seasons of the
year.
Mr. Wyeth was a liberal contributor to many charities,
the University of Pennsylvania especially being the recipient
of his bounties. He was a member of the Sons of the Revo-
lution.
His firm has a world-wide reputation for its pharma-
ceutical preparations. I remember when last in Vienna,
entering a chemist's shop, asking for quinine, and being
handed a box bearing the familiar Philadelphia name of
John Wyeth & Brother, the sight of which, so far from home,
was a potent factor in restoring health.
Past and Present
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BRONZE GOAT, "BILLY"
By Albert Laessle. Erected in Rittenhouse Square by the Fairmount Park-
Art Association — a gift from Eli Kirk Price, Esq.
{Courtesy of George A. Wolf)
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Photo by Gutekunst
ALFRED M. COLLINS, 1820-1895
1914 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
Formerly 1900 Plymouth Street
(27' x 40')
1853 — Alfred M. Collins.
1868 — Henry Croskey.
1885 — Elizabeth C. MacKeown.
1887 — Edmund H. Frishmuth, Jr.
It may not be generally known that the small street leading
out from Rittenhouse Square, running to Twentieth, facing
St. Patrick's Church, now called Rittenhouse Street, was
originally named Plymouth, and the first house next to
1912 just described was numbered 1900 Plymouth Street,
and was owned and occupied by Alfred M. Collins, manu-
facturer of paper, who dwelt here from 1850 until 1866.
His eldest son, Harry, was our playmate, and being lithe
of body he could outrun his companions. We had many
games of shinny on the Square pavement, running from
Eighteenth to Nineteenth, pedestrians using the south side
of the street in deference to the boys' activities; prisoners'
base was also a favorite game, these sports being confined
to the upper side, probably because it was the least fre-
quented. Harry Collins' sons, grandsons of the original
resident, first named, are prominent members of the com-
munity, giving their ability and means to the improvement
of communal life.
The house was later bought by Mr. Croskey (then living
next door below) and altered so as to command an excel-
lent view of the Square. The house extended back to the
party line, and the rear wall contained windows. The two
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owners on Ann Street (the street immediately in the rear)
had erected high wooden fences in front of all the windows,
so that when these two Ann Street houses were purchased by
Mr. Croskev it was stipulated, in addition to the price paid,
that the two owners should be permitted to live in their
respective houses, rent free, until their death, which did not
occur until several years later, when the fences were removed.
Ann Street is now re-named Manning Street.
Photo by Broadbent
MRS. ALFRED M. COLLINS
1820- 1S9S
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In 1872 Joseph G. Rowland was resident here; he was a
junior partner in the cloth firm of John B. Ellison & Sons.
In 1880 John C. W. Frishmuth was the tenant, and in
1895 Louis Krumbhaar. The latter had married the daugh-
ter of Bishop Stevens, a distinguished ecclesiastic, who
earlier had been rector of St. Andrew's Church on Eighth
Street above Spruce.
Edmund H. Frishmuth, Jr., married Miss Dallett; their
daughter became the wife of Charles J. Rhoads, a partner
in the banking firm of Brown Brothers & Co.
Copyright by Moses King
RT. REV. WM. B. STEVENS, D.D., LL.D.
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MAJOR ALFRED MORDECAI
1804- 1S87
1922 SOUTH RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
Formerly Plymouth Street
(22' x 40")
1 85 1 — Julius Fink to Aaron Comfort.
— (by inheritance) Emma Walraven, wife of Ira E. Wal-
raven, and Annie E. Caldwell, granddaughter of
Aaron Comfort.
1876 — Francis M. Caldwell.
1908 — Elizabeth H. Caldwell.
1913 — Francis G. Caldwell.
1920 — J. Bunford Samuel.
The Misses Mordecai, the present tenants, widely known
in social circles in Philadelphia, have a distinguished
ancestry. Their father was Major Alfred Mordecai,
U. S. A., a graduate of West Point Class of 1823 and
one of the three members of the Commission sent by
Jefferson Davis, the Secretary of War under President
Pierce, to Russia in 1855-56 to study the Crimean War,
then in progress with England, France and Turkey against
Russia; Mordecai represented ordnance, the others being
Major Richard Delafield, engineers, and Captain George
Bnnton McClellan, cavalry. Major Mordecai's son,
Brigadier General Alfred Mordecai, also a West Pointer,
Class of 1 86 1, recently deceased, was very highly considered
in Army circles. McClellan later became general in our
Civil War.
Miss Rebecca Gratz was their great-aunt, a woman
widely known for her beauty, intellectual attainments and
charm of manner.
Miss Gratz had been the friend of Matilda Hoffman, of
New York (the betrothed of Washington Irving), whom she
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Military Commission to visit the Crimea and theater of war in Europe,
1855-56. From right to left: Major Alfred Mordecai, U. S. A.; Col. Obreskoff,
Russian official aide; Major Richard Delafield, U. S. A.; Captain (afterward
General) George B. McClellan, U. S. A.
(From tt/r photograph taken in St. Peter^/iury. Russia, 1S55)
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had nursed in her last illness; and after her death, Irving,
visiting Sir Walter Scott, spoke of the character of this
splendid Jewish girl who had comforted his beloved's dying
davs, and Scott immediately adopted the name and char-
acter for his heroine ot Ivanhoe. 1
REBECCA GRATZ
17S1 - 1869
(From the miniature by Malbone)
1 For fuller descriptions of this remarkable woman see Century Magazine
of September, 1882, an article entitled "The Original of Rebecca in Ivanhoe" —
a descriptive portraiture by Gratz Van Rensselaer; also Recollections of My
Aunt, Rebecca Gratz, by One of Her Nieces, by the late Mrs. Sara [nee Hays|
Mordecai, wife of Major Alfred Mordecai, Philadelphia, 1893; Gratz Papers,
"B. and M. Gratz, merchants in Philadelphia, 1754-1798," by Anderson
Gratz, 1916, p. 325; The Jews of Philadelphia, by Henry S. Morais, 1894.
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Miss Gratz dwelt for many years on the north side of
Chestnut Street ahove Twelfth; there were four houses
of similar architecture, called Boston Row, that stood back
from the front pavement as shown in the illustration.
A third daughter of Major Mordecai, Miss Rosa, lives
in Washington, D. C. In earlv youth she was mv Sundav-
school teacher and I have always been grateful for the
patience she exercised in endeavoring to instil high standards
of life.
Northwest corner Chestnut and Twelfth Streets and B< stun Row to the West
m 1839
{Sketched by Kennedy. Courtesy of Historical society of Pennsylvania)
230 SOUTH NINETEENTH STREET
Northwest Corner Nineteenth and Rittenhouse Streets
(20' x 124' 6")
1865 — Rev. Charles W. Shields.
1866 — Tench C. Coxe.
1869 — George D. Rosengarten.
1913 — Children of Charles P. Sinnickson.
Rev. Charles Woodruff Shields was a native of New
Albany, Ind., and pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church,
1850-65, then situated on Seventh Street below Arch.
Upon his retirement he was appointed professor of science
and religion at Princeton University, serving from 1 865-1 903.
In 1852 William B. Fling lived here, with his family,
for many years. Tradition relates that Fling Senior and
Fling Junior, father and son, being experts with the brush,
are described suspended in a deep basket, painting the spire
of Christ Church on Second Street with perfect nonchalance
and with complete success. It is doubtful, however, if this
reference applies to the residents of Rittenhouse Square;
a careful and exhaustive research has failed to establish the
presence of living descendants.
Afterward it was occupied by Tench Coxe, and in 1871
Charles P. Sinnickson acquired the property, made many
changes from the old-fashioned brick front, a decided im-
provement to that section. Mr. Sinnickson's wife was
Emma Rosengarten, the daughter of George D. Rosen-
garten, who lived on the southeast corner of Sixteenth and
Chestnut, and whose son, the late Joseph- G. Rosengarten,
was one of the most prominent members of the community,
and a man to whom all citizens were greatly indebted for
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the interest that he took in every good work — social, intel-
lectual and charitable — whenever brought to his attention.
The Rosengartens are descended from the Mendelssohn
family, distinguished in the 18th century for literary and
musical quality of the very highest standards. Moses
REV. DR. CHARLES W. SHIELDS
1825- 1904
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Mendelssohn, eminent philosopher, friend and collaborator
of Lessing, the father of the new era of German literature,
dating from the middle of the 18th century, was the grand-
father of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, famous musician
and composer, of equal rank with Handel and Mozart.
MRS. CHARLES P. SINNICKSON
(Emma Rosengarten]
1S47- 1911
228 SOUTH NINETEENTH STREET
(20' x 127')
1859 — Catharine Field.
1864 — Rachel L. Harvey (formerly Rachel L. Wistar).
1875 — Walter Dwight Bell.
1888 — Frederick C. and Clara Elizabeth Durant.
In 1859 Catharine Field was the owner and she is recorded
as Mrs. Charles Field. Living with her was Thomas Y.
Field, who was appointed second lieutenant U. S. Marine
Corps in 1847 from the State of Pennsylvania and retired
in 1899 with the rank of colonel.
S. Weir Lewis resided here in 1851-52. When but
seventeen years of age he was sent by his father, John F.
Lewis, as supercargo to Canton, China, in the ship "Ply-
mouth," followed by several other voyages to the same
port, finally retiring with a fortune, devoting his well-earned
leisure to the community's welfare, serving for many years
as treasurer of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf
and Dumb, The Northern Home for Friendless Children,
The Union Benevolent Association, The Athenaeum of
Philadelphia and being identified with many of the City's
charities as secretary or director. He was also a director
of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank and assisted
his brother, Edwin M. Lewis, then president of the bank,
in the settlement of the estate of Jay Cooke & Co. after the
panic of the year 1873.
His son is the present John Frederick Lewis, with a
national reputation in marine law; he also serves our
community, following the example of his forbears. Mr.
Lewis is president of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, member of the Art Jury, councillor of the His-
torical Society of Pennsylvania, president of the Mercan-
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tile Library, and active in a host of other organizations
tending to the City's welfare. He is an authority on books,
ancient and modern, and possesses a library open to book-
lovers to share its treasures.
S. WEIR LEWIS
1819- 1838
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Durant have lived here for
many vears; Mrs. Durant is the daughter of Joseph Harri-
son, Jr., one of our foremost citizens, who established a
world-wide reputation and of whom further will be related
when his former residence on the opposite side of the Square
is reached.
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Photo by Goldensky
ALEXANDER E. HARVEY
1824- 1910
226 SOUTH NINETEENTH STREET
(22' 4" x 252')
1856 — -Elizabeth B. Sloanaker.
1856 — Louisa L. Gilmore.
1873 — Alfred Gilmore.
1875 — Alexander E. and Rachael L. Harvey.
Here lives R. Wistar Harvey, whose parents were related
to Lewis A. Scott, of whom mention has been made. His
father was Alexander E. Harvey, whose portrait is given.
In 1856, when this property was for sale by William H.
Sloanaker, United States Assessor, my father, desiring to
have a larger house, since the family was growing, entered
into an agreement with Sloanaker for its purchase, which
the latter declined to complete, so the negotiations were
terminated and we remained on the south side.
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MRS. ALEXANDER E. HARVEY
1X28- 1S93
[PIMtfjmjtlfil l>il a<>ltirax!;(i from photograph by Sarony)
224 SOUTH NINETEENTH STREET
(33' x 145')
1864 — Margaret Crousillat.
1865 — Charles Gibbons.
1885 — John A. Brown, Jr.
This was an old-fashioned, attractive building con-
structed of wood in style of a Swiss chalet, probably the
only one in Philadelphia. It was occupied by Miss Margaret
Crousillat, who lived there from 1855 until 1864.
In the old histories of Philadelphia, there is mentioned
the name of Louis Marshall Jacques Crousillat, who died
about 1836, but it has not yet been established if he were a
brother of the lady referred to. The name is exceptional,
of French origin, and it seems natural to conclude that they
are related.
This lady was noted as an amateur performer on the
harp, a rare accomplishment in those days, but, since my
mother was an amateur musician, there were notable gather-
ings at each other's houses with Semiladis on the violin,
Ahrend on the 'cello, Miss Crousillat with the harp, my
mother at the piano, and occasionally Wolfsohn and Wald-
teufel, famous pianists of the early days.
The house was known as No. 1920; for years there was
confusion, since some residents used the enumeration count-
ing from Nineteenth Street, while others used the serial
numbers beginning at 200 at Walnut Street through to the
south side.
• After Miss Crousillat's death Charles Gibbons became
the owner; reference has been made to his personality and
career at an earlier location.
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A daughter of Charles Gibbons married Major White,
who had lived in the West after retiring from the Army. He
was a genial, well-informed man of attractive personality
and gave excellent service as one of the secretaries of the
Fairmount Park Art Association. To his daughters, the
Misses White, I am indebted for the photographs of their
Crousillat House, West Rittenhouse Square, 224 South Nineteenth Street
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145
grandparents and especially for that of the house, the only
illustration in existence of that period and place.
In 1887 John A. Brown, Jr., who lived at Nineteenth
and Walnut, removed the dwelling and put up the present
handsome stone house, living there until his recent demise.
His widow, Mrs. Brown, is still a resident, deeply interested
in church and charitable work.
JOHN A. BROWN, Jr.
1839- 1919
222 SOUTH NINETEENTH STREET
S. W. corner Nineteenth and Locust Streets
(33' * 145')
1863 — Julia Rhpplihr.
1SS4 — Henry C. Gibson.
1893 — Alice Gibson Brock.
George S. Repplier was interested in the development ot
anthracite coal-fields and was a popular member ot the
community.
GEORGE S. REPPLIER
1817- 1872
His niece is Miss Agnes Repplier, of international literary
fame, in whose reputation we take great pride.
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Another relative is my cousin, the former Miss Emma
Repplier, now the wife of Dr. Lightner Witmer, of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Colonel Robert Coleman Hall Brock of the Second
Regiment, N. G. P., and a well-known lawyer, was born
MRS. GEORGE S. REPPLIER
1820- 1898
in this City in 1861. He was educated at St. Paul's School
at Concord, N. H. He was subsequently graduated from
Oxford University, England, and, returning to Philadelphia,
entered the office of W. H. Newbold & Co., bankers. Several
years later he began the study of law in the office of Judge
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George M. Dallas, and was admitted to the Bar. He
married Miss Alice Gibson, daughter of the late Henry C.
Gibson, of this City.
Colonel Brock was a director of the Academy of the
Fine Arts, was connected with the Archaeological Depart-
Pfiolo by Gutekunst
ROBERT C. H. BROCK
1861- 1906
ment of the University of Pennsylvania and was a member
of Philadelphia, University and Rittenhouse Clubs.
As a lawyer Colonel Brock was not active in the courts,
his time being given to the care of estates, and with his
Past and Present 149
brothers he was interested in many financial projects. His
wealth, acquired from his father's estate, permitted him to
follow his inclination for scientific study and art pursuits.
He was one of the leading members of the Franklin Institute.
Samuel T. Bodine was resident in 1900; he is now presi-
dent of the United Gas Improvement Company.
220 SOUTH NINETEENTH STREET
(20' x 116')
1853 — Thomas Newbold.
1854 — Caroline Harvey.
1906 — Mary J. B. Chew.
— Martha M. Brown.
1919 — David S. B. Chew, et al., Trustees.
Josiah L. Harvey lived here about 1857; he was engaged in
real estate. It is reported that his picture was never taken.
Copyright by Moses King
West Rittenhouse Square (Nineteenth Street below Walnut), looking south
This property was finally acquired by Major David
S. B. Chew, who holds it jointly with other members of the
family. It is now arranged as an apartment house.
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218 SOUTH NINETEENTH STREET
(40' x 116')
i860 — Samuel Smyth.
1861 — Manlius G. Evans.
1870 — George C. Franciscus.
— Sallie E. Lippincott, wife of Craige Lippincott.
Charles H. Pancoast, attorney and counsellor, married in
1857 Sarah E. Smyth, daughter of Samuel Smyth, who built
this house for her. Mr. Pancoast was the oldest son of the
eminent surgeon, Doctor Joseph Pancoast, and was a
graduate of Haverford College.
Manlius G. Evans was a Philadelphian by birth, a mem-
ber of our Bar, although not in active practice.
He was very greatly interested in horses and driving, and
at one time was the owner of a farm in Chester County.
Mr. Evans married Ellen, the daughter of Hartman Kuhn,
whose mansion was on Chestnut Street above Eleventh,
now the site of Keith's Theater.
The daughter became the wife of Admiral Mahan, of our
Navy, and a man of world-wide reputation.
Mr. Evans was a member of the City Troop.
George C. Franciscus was born in Lancaster, Pa., in
1821. He had limited advantage of the schools, and when
but a boy obtained employment in a book-store in his native
city and embraced the opportunity to read and study books.
When sixteen he left Lancaster and accepted employment as
clerk in the office of Brown & Reed on the Columbia Canal
Basin. He remained with the firm until in the early forties,
when he entered the office of the agent at Columbia for
Leech's Transportation Line, which he represented, remain-
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ing there until 1853, when J. Edgar Thomson selected him
as freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pittsburgh.
To him is due the credit of bringing order out of chaos into
which the freighting business of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
Photo by Germon
CHARLES HOWARD PANCOAST
1830- 1861
both in its local and interchange aspects, had fallen. In
1857 he was appointed Superintendent of the Philadelphia
and Columbia Railroad, where his splendid organizing and
administrative abilities soon produced a revolution and
brought it within and under the control of business methods
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153
The rapid growth of Philadelphia, whose business inter-
ests were interwoven with those of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, presented so many special questions for determination
by a well-equipped transportation official that the necessity
for the office of general agent arose. Thus came the creation
of the office, and the selection of Mr. Franciscus as its first
Photo by A. Newman
MANLIUS G. EVANS
1821- 1879
incumbent. He continued as general agent until his death,
which occurred at Cresson Springs in 1870.
Mr. Franciscus was a man of strength and breadth,
positive in manner, inflexible in requiring obedience, yet
withal kind and considerate to those who came under his
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official leadership, an efficient officer, a good citizen and a
kind friend.
Three years before the Centennial Exhibition, it was
in March, 1873, this house was granted to the "Women's
GEORGE C. FRANCISCUS
1821- 1870
Centennial Executive Committee," of which that accom-
plished, energetic woman, Mrs. E. D. Gillespie, was chairman.
There was a Loan Exhibition held there, the large garden
being enclosed with a cover of canvas so that dancing and
a restaurant were successfully conducted and large sums of
Past and Present 155
money realized for the cause, as also keeping before the
public an interest in the approaching exhibition.
Members of the Committee:
Mrs. E. D. Gillespie, President, 250 S. 21st St.
Mrs. John Sanders, Vice-President, 410 S. 15th St.
Mrs. J. Edgar Thomson, Treasurer, 18th and
Spruce Sts.
Mrs. Aubrey H. Smith, Secretary, 151 5 Pine St.
Miss McHenry, 1902 Chestnut St.
Mrs. Charles J. Stille, 1505 Walnut St.
Miss Elizabeth Gratz, 1309 Locust St.
Mrs. John W. Forney, 618 S. Washington Square.
Mrs. Emily R. Buckman, 567 N. 16th St.
Mrs. Richard P. White, 21 13 Pine St.
Mrs. Henry Cohen, 1828 S. Rittenhouse Square.
Mrs. Matthew Simpson, 1807 Mount Vernon St.
Mrs. Huldah Justice, 567 N. 15th St.
Elizabeth Duane Gillespie was a great-granddaughter
of Benjamin Franklin. She was the daughter of William
Duane, editor of the Aurora, whose wife was Deborah
Bache. Their son was the eminent William J. Duane,
friend and legal adviser of Stephen Girard and Secretary
of the Treasury during the administration of President
Andrew Jackson. It is stated that by Duane's advice
Girard purchased many acres of land (afterward proved
to be rich in coal) at from three to six cents per acre.
Mrs. Gillespie inherited the qualities of these noted
ancestors and was possessed of a strong personality which
brought her prominently forward in civic life.
I can recall some of the worthy enterprises that were
benefited by her commanding leadership: the Hospital for
Wounded Soldiers of the Civil War at Broad and Cherry
Streets; the Fair in Logan Square for the benefit of the
Sanitary Commission in 1864; the Symphony Concerts, a
movement that has resulted today in the overflowing
audiences at the Boston Symphony performances and those
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of the Philadelphia Orchestra; the Associate Committee of
Women of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of In-
dustrial Art, with its seventeen pupils, but which numbered
more than a thousand at the time of the close of her career;
Photo by Guhkuml
MRS. ELIZABETH DUANE GILLESPIE
1821- 1901
one of the founders of the National Society of Colonial
Dames of America; and a life member of the Daughters of
the American Revolution.
In later years she organized the associate board of women
to conduct the maternity department of Jefferson Hospital,
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a work ably continued by her daughter, Ellen Duane, the
wife of Dr. Edward P. Davis.
"Both in personal appearance and in many of her
intellectual characteristics Mrs. Gillespie bore a striking
resemblance to her great ancestor, Benjamin Franklin."
To indicate an appreciation of Mrs. Gillespie's services,
a few of her friends and associates commissioned Susan
Horner, the sculptress in Florence, to design a plaque, which
was executed in marble and is a faithful portraiture of this
eminent woman. The presentation took place in mv
mother's home at 1828 South Rittenhouse Square, Colonel
Chapman Biddle making the address in the presence of a
distinguished gathering, to which Mrs. Gillespie replied in
a vein of happy wit and humor.
Later this fine double property was acquired by the late
Craige Lippincott, where he lived until his recent death. It
is now occupied by the Red Cross Society, which is in treaty
for its purchase.
216 SOUTH NINETEENTH STREET
(20' x 116')
1863— R. E. Morris.
1864 — John Fallon.
1883— Mary M. Leedom.
In 1857 John Fallon, a member of the Bar, was the occupant,
and rumor credited him with being the agent in this country
for the late Queen of Spain, who was said to be the owner of
considerable real estate in the southeastern part of Philadel-
phia. It is also stated that he received a fee of $100,000, a
fabulous sum in those days, and it was reported that he had
used a portion of this amount to erect a palace on West
Rittenhouse Square.
Joseph Leedom later became the owner and resided there
for many years and still retains his ownership, although no
longer a resident.
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CONVENT OR ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME
(Four lots)
(US' X252')
1865 to 1868 — James Swain, 206-208 South Nineteenth Street;
Oliver Hopkinson, 210 South Nineteenth Street;
Samuel J. Sharpless, 212 and 214 South Nine-
teenth Street.
Next to the Fallon residence is the Academy of Notre
Dame, occupying a large section of ground which belonged
to, or was controlled by, George W. Edwards, of whom
mention will be made later.
The ground originally was a brickyard and lay fallow
until its purchase by the Sisters in the sixties.
As an educational institution, it also ranks high in the
estimation of members of other faiths, many of its pupils
having been of creeds other than the Roman Catholic.
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204 SOUTH NINETEENTH STREET
(2S'xiSS')
1864 — Charles M. Gibson.
1865 — Joshua B. Lippincott.
1906 — Isabel Armstrong Lippincott.
1919 — Archibald Barklie.
Joshua B. Lippincott built this house in 1866, living there
with his family until his death in 1886. As one of the early
makers of Philadelphia, it may be of interest to give an out-
line of his career.
A native of New Jersey, he imbibed from his widowed
mother, who was of thrifty Quaker stock, many character-
istics which contributed to his phenomenal success in life.
When a boy he was employed by a bookseller in Philadelphia,
soon mastered the details of the business, and, on the failure
of his employer, at the request of creditors when only 18
years of age, he assumed charge. Following this experience,
a few years later, with a loan of $2000 from his mother, he
began on his own account at the old stand of his first em-
ployer at Fourth and Race Streets.
Many years afterward, on the site of this his first humble
store, he erected a commodious warehouse, a much-needed
improvement in the neighborhood.
In 1849 Mr. Lippincott purchased the extensive book-
jobbing and stationery business of Grigg, Elliot & Co., then
the largest establishment of the kind in the United States.
Combined with the publishing of notable works, in which
Mr. Lippincott had been engaged for years, the house became
a dominating influence in the trade of the entire country,
the publications securing wide recognition in Great Britain
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161
and in her English-speaking colonies. Those that I remem-
ber with much satisfaction are Chambers' Encyclopedia; the
Gazeteer of the World and Doctor Thomas' Dictionary of
Biography and Mythology, all of importance to the school-
J. B. LIPPINCOTT
1813- 1886
boy, and they have not lost their value even in these days
of the multiplicity of books of reference. When a youth I
was a member of a class attending lectures given by Dr.
Thomas on literature and retain a regard and esteem for his
efforts that have left a permanent impression.
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Upon the breaking out of the Civil War in 1861, Lippin-
cott suffered great losses through the overdue and unpaid
accounts of the southern customers; but this was soon com-
pensated for by new business channels opened up in the
North and West. Many standard works were now issued,
Allibone's Dictionary of Authors; United States Dispensatory;
sets of Bulwer's novels, many histories, and hosts of light
literature.
In 1861-63 ne erected a capacious store and warehouse
at 715 and 717 Market Street, a Mecca for book-lovers until
the department store of Lit Brothers absorbed it and the
Lippincott Company was established in East Washington
Square, a section destined to be the home of the publishing
business of Philadelphia.
Mr. Lippincott was extremely popular with his hosts of
employees and highly esteemed by his fellow-citizens;
among positions of honor and trust may be named director
of the Farmers & Mechanics Bank lately merged with
the Philadelphia National; manager Philadelphia Saving
Fund Society; director Pennsylvania Company for Insur-
ances on Lives & Granting Annuities; trustee Jefferson
Medical College and of the University of Pennsylvania.
For twenty years he was a member of the Board of Managers
of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, which in
the crisis of its affairs received liberally both of his time and
of his means. When president of the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, he became interested in the
Veterinary Department of the University, giving generously
to its support, and has been regarded as one of the founders.
Mr. Lippincott was one of the original band of patriots
forming the Union Club, from which developed our present
Union League, and responded to all appeals on behalf of the
armies in the field. He was a member of the Philadelphia
Club, the Social Art Club (now the Rittenhouse) and of many
other societies.
Mrs. J. B. Lippincott was the daughter of Seth Craige,
a prominent manufacturer.
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The Lippincott house was purchased by Mrs. J. Dundas
Lippincott after the death of her husband, who had lived in
the so-called yellow mansion at the northeast corner of
Broad and Walnut Streets. Upon Mrs. Lippincott's re-
MRS. JOSHUA B. LIPPINCOTT
[Josephine Craige]
1S23- 1899
marriage she left the city, since which time the house has
been rented to tenants, John W. Converse (son ot the late
fohn H. Converse, president of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works), and at present Colonel Samuel D. Lit.
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Of the family there are surviving Walter Lippincott,
who married the daughter of Sigmund Horstmann; J.
Bertram Lippincott, whose wife is the daughter of Joseph
Wharton; and a daughter, Mrs. Goodwin, of New York.
These men and women constitute a group of great honor
to our community, a group that in the past has contributed
to, and continues in the present to initiate and encourage,
all good works.
202 SOUTH NINETEENTH STREET
(50' x 140')
1855 — William Swain.
1856 — Fairman Rogers.
1888 — Alexander J. Cassatt.
1921 — Protestant Episcopal Diocese.
In the fifties Mr. Rogers built this house, substantial brick,
plain exterior, but with modern conveniences within. He
was professor of civil engineering of the University of Penn-
sylvania, and dean of the Department of Mechanical Arts.
In 1872, when the University moved from Ninth Street, he
ceased to be professor and became a member of the Board of
Trustees. In later years he was a familiar figure on his four-
in-hand coach and tandem team driving through the City
and its suburbs. He was a very active member of the com-
munity and held in high esteem.
The late Horace Howard Furness indited a memorial,
from which the following may be gleaned:
Fairman Rogers was born in Philadelphia in 1833 and died in
Vienna, Austria, in 1900. His father was Evans Rogers, an iron-
master of wealth; his grandfather, Gideon Fairman, the inventor
of the art of engine-turning, to which is due the artistic engraving
on our modern bank-notes.
Gideon Fairman was an intimate of Washington Irving, who
declared that if he were condemned to prison with the privilege of
only one associate, he would select Fairman as his single companion.
At the age of fourteen Fairman Rogers lectured (upon request
of the master of the school) to the class on the then novelty of
the electric telegraph, illustrating by wires he had attached to the
walls and ceiling of the room.
Then he was a volunteer companion to Professor Alexander
Dallas Bache on the United States Coast Survey, on his return
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lecturing for some time at Harvard on roads. As a member of
the First City Troop he served in the field on the breaking out of
the Civil War and later was on the stafF of General Re'.nolds and
of General Smith.
FAIRMAN ROGERS
1833 - 1900
{From the Memorial by Dr. Horace Howard Furness)
He was one of the founders of our Academy of Natural
Sciences, a Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, a member of the Saturday Club, from which developed The
Union League. At the home at Newport, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers
entertained hosts of friends.
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Dr. Furness concludes in these words:
To a keen intellect were united clearness of exposition and a
retentive memory; on man)' an institution in his native city an
ineffaceable impression has been left of his judicious devotion; of
unstinted hospitality and the most considerate and attentive of
Photo, by Broadbcnt
MRS. FAIRMAN ROGERS
1S33 - 1914
hosts; of high veracity and a delicate sense of honor; and of such
serenity that a harsh or hasty word never fell from his lips. Pos-
sibly in what has been said there is too much of the personal
equation. Be it so; we were children together; brothers in love
and in law; I can say but what I believe.
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After the death of Mr. Rogers, the property was finally
sold to A. J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
who occupied it from 1889 until his death. Mr. Cassatt
made many changes in the building, both inside and out.
ALEXANDER J. CASSATT
1839- 1906
Alexander Johnston Cassatt was born in Pittsburgh in
1839; his father was a man of means and position, identified
with important interests.
Alexander, when a youth, spent some years in the Uni-
versity of Darmstadt, where he acquired several foreign
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169
languages, in which he was always proficient. Returning
to America, he entered Rensselaer Polytechnic College,
Troy, N. Y., from which he graduated as civil engineer, and
was engaged by the Pennsylvania Railroad as rodman, from
MRS. ALEXANDER JOHNSTON CASSATT
1846- 1920
which position he advanced to the vice-presidency. Resign-
ing to follow private interests, he was again called to the
service of the company as its president in 1899. It was
during his administration that there occurred the famous
incident of the purchase of the Philadelphia, Wilmington &
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Baltimore Railroad, a transaction hitherto without parallel.
The most notable undertakings of the railroad company
were initiated during his able conduct of affairs. I have the
privilege of quoting from the minute adopted by the directors
shortly after Mr. Cassatt's death, December 28, 1906:
In ever}' position which he filled he had shown a thorough
mastery of the problems entrusted to him for solution, a broad
and comprehensive understanding of the questions at issue, intui-
tive perception of the underlying principles involved in their
adjustment, and a keen sense of justice toward contending interests.
It is no wonder, therefore, that not only his close associates, but
all those brought into contact with him, recognized in him one of
the leading spirits of our age, one of the men who make a nation
great and whose fame is a precious heritage.
Mrs. Alexander Johnston Cassatt was the daughter of
the late Reverend Edward Y. Buchanan and a niece of James
Buchanan, President of the United States, 1857-61. For
years Mrs. Cassatt had been one of the foremost leaders of
Philadelphia society and was a prominent patroness of the
arts, music and languages, having been president of the
Alliance Francaise as also vice-president of the Acorn Club.
From the year 1914 to the time of her death, Mrs. Cassatt
was president of the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, to
which she brought an intelligent and influential personality
on behalf of the City's welfare during the period of the
World War.
Recently the property has been acquired by the Trustees
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Penn-
sylvania and will be their new Church House, the acquire-
ment having been made possible through the liberality of
the Cassatt family, they being willing to receive a sum con-
siderably less than the estimated value.
SOUTHWEST CORNER NINETEENTH AND WALNUT
STREETS
(ioo' x 164')
1856 — Church of the Holy Trinity.
Until 1856 this was a vacant lot, which was true of most of
the surrounding blocks of streets, many of them occupied bv
stoneyards and operations of a similar character, but in the
year mentioned the foundations were begun and the church
was opened in 1858. The architecture is Norman Gothic;
West Rittenhouse Square or South Nineteenth Street
the architect, John Nottman, who designed St. Mark's
Church, Locust Street above Sixteenth. The chime of bells
was the gift of the late Joseph E. Temple, and the structure
when viewed from Eighteenth Street, especially toward sun-
down and particularly in the autumn when the leaves have
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fallen fron the trees, is most attractive, and there are few
sections of the City where a more interesting presentation
can be made.
The pulpit has been occupied by men of distinction,
especially the Reverend Phillips Brooks, whose masterful
presentation of scriptural and mundane subjects attracted
wide attention. Mr. Brooks was deeply interested in the
REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS
1835- 1893
1891, Right Reverend Bishop of the P. E. Diocese of Massachusetts
success of the northern troops during the Civil War and took
every occasion to impress his congregation with the impor-
tance of the highest character of patriotism. On the Sunday
morning in July, 1863, when suspense existed throughout
the community during the progress of the Battle of Gettys-
burg, news had been received of the final victory and the
retreat of General Lee's Confederate force; my father,
Past and Present 173
imbued with patriotic fervor and knowing of Mr. Brooks'
anxiety, crossed over to the church, entering it at the close
of the service, and had the privilege of giving to the rector
the welcome news, which was quickly spread throughout
the congregation. Confirmation of this incident comes from
Mr. Brooks' pocket diary as follows: "Sunday, July 5, 1863.
. During the Communion Service news came of Lee's
rout and I announced it to the congregation. God be
praised."
It is interesting to note the career of this eminent man.
A native of Massachusetts, he spent the years 1856-59 at
the theological seminary at Alexandria, Va., from which he
was called to the Church of the Advent, York Road and
Buttonwood Street, Philadelphia, in the year 1859, where
he developed into a preacher and church worker of excep-
tional quality. It was said at the time that the late Thomas
H. Powers, then living close to the church, was attracted
by the powerful language in which Mr. Brooks addressed
his congregation, so that, upon the former's removal to
Walnut Street above Sixteenth and the erection of Holy
Trinity, the call was extended to Mr. Brooks to take up the
much larger and more important work that was offered.
His diary and letters indicate the regret that the congregants
of the "Advent" felt at his departure, as also his own con-
sideration of the change, but it is evident that he recognized
his duty to the greater field that opened. All are familiar
with his success in spreading religious thought over our
community, his subsequent and successful installation at
Trinity in the City of Boston, and his final consecration as
Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts. When in Boston
one winter Mrs. Cohen and I were privileged to be present
at a service in Trinity and listened with eager attention to
one of his sermons delivered with marvelous speed, yet with
clearest intonation.
In the rear, a little to the south and facing on Twentieth
Street, was a church entitled "Western" of the Methodist
Episcopal creed, supported by the brickmakers who were
numerous in the neighboring dwellings; it was known collo-
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quially as the "Brickmaker's Church." Some years since
the property was acquired by the Holy Trinity congregation
and is now their Parish House, wherein there is a well-
arranged Sunday School and various and spacious rooms
in which are conducted the many activities of this important
religious body.
The present rector, the Rev. Dr. Floyd W. Tomkins,
has a wide influence in the community; his "lessons" as
published in the Saturday Ledgers are admirable biblical
essays by which all may profit, irrespective of creed.
Holy Trinity Church has been so prominent in the affairs
of the community, intimately associated with Rittenhouse
Square, that it is thought desirable and would be of interest
to narrate a few of the salient facts in connection with its
origin and continued welfare.
Dr. J. Cheston Morris addressed a congregation on the
occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the laying of the
cornerstone of the structure in May, 1907, and by the
courtesy of John W. Townsend, Esq., accounting warden,
some extracts have been made.
Dr. Morris proceeds to say that in the year 1855 he was
living at 1628 Chestnut Street and was called upon by
Lemuel Coffin and John M. Hale to discuss the desirability
of establishing a new congregation in the western section of
our City, which was then pressing rapidly toward the Schuyl-
kill. It was suggested that a committee in sympathy with
the object should be formed; subsequent reports were
encouraging since they included subscriptions from John
Bohlen, Asa Whitney, John and William Welsh, John Grigg,
Thomas H. Powers, William P. Cresson, Thomas Allibone
and many others. The committee consisted, beside Dr.
Morris, of Messrs. Hale, L. Montgomery Bond and Samuel
Leonard.
The lot was purchased at a cost of $37,500, and the
building contracted for at a cost of $63,000. The first
rector was Dr. Vinton, who came from Boston. The total
cost of the ground and building, including organ and furni-
ture (but not the spire), was about $125,000.
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When in 1861 the efforts of the United States Government, to
relieve the imprisoned garrison of Fort Sumter, brought about its
abandonment, I well recall the Sunday morning when the an-
nouncement was made that the first shots had been fired. I
walked down the street with Mr. Coffin and Mr. Bohlen, and we
purchased the first extras. That afternoon, before evening service,
I requested Dr. Vinton to read the prayer for the Church "In
Time of War and Tumult." He only asked me, "Are you pre-
pared to call them your enemies?" to which I replied, "Anyone
who fires on the flag of my country is my enemy." "Then I will
read the prayer," he said, which he accordingly did.
Later in the year the failing health of Mrs. Vinton
induced the rector to seek another climate. Therefore
early in March of that year a carriage containing Messrs.
Coffin, Cresson, George L. Harrison and Dr. Morris drove
to the Church of the Advent, Fifth and Buttonwood Streets,
where the Reverend Phillips Brooks, a student of Dr. Vinton,
was then rector.
"We passed quietly into the church and listened to the
service and sermon. We came away satisfied that here was
the man whom we wanted for our rector."
It is reported that his views were so broad that in the
morning he would take strong Arminian ground and in the
evening equally strong Calvinistic, and on one occasion a
member of Dr. Vinton's family rushed into the room with
the exclamation, "What do you think! Phillips Brooks has
just preached an awful sermon!" to which Dr. Vinton
replied, "My dear, be quiet." And when Dr. Morris was
appealed to for the thread of the sermon, it was decided
Mr. Brooks was a man who thought for himself. No old
formula would content him but he was on the right founda-
tion and would come out all right; and so it proved.
In 1869 Dr. Brooks resigned to accept the rectorship of
Trinity, in Boston, where his opportunities among the
Harvard students were unparalleled. Then followed
Reverend Thomas A. Jaggar and Reverend William Neilson
McVickar and finally the Reverend Floyd W. Tomkins,
the present rector.
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A word may well be given to the music of the church,
which has been rendered so attractive by the skill of Francis
Sully Darley, Lewis H. Redner, Michael Cross and Kinder.
The Sunday Schools, Bible Schools, Night Schools,
Sewing Classes, Cooking Schools, Neighborhood Guilds,
Colored Schools, Chinese Schools and many others may be
mentioned as among the activities successfully carried on
during the past fifty years or more.
In concluding his address, Dr. J. Cheston Morns lays
particular stress upon the devotion to the church and its
interests by John Bohlen, Lemuel Coffin, Miss Anna
Blanchard, Mrs. Ashbridge, William P. Cresson, Judge
Woodward, Asa Whitney, James S. Biddle, Alexander
Brown and many others who have gone to their reward.
1905 WALNUT STREET
(19' x 140')
— Samuel Norris.
1864 — Lemuel Coffin.
1870 — Edmund A. W. Hunter.
1887 — Emma L. Horstmann.
1894 — Frank H. Rosengarten.
This was erected about the same time that Holy Trinity
Church was completed.
Dr. Hunter was an early occupant, and in 1888 it was
purchased by Mrs. Wm. J. Horstmann (the mother of our
present Walter Horstmann); she lived there until her death
in 1893.
In 1894 Mr. Frank H. Rosengarten became the owner
and is still a resident. George D. Rosengarten, his father
and founder of the chemical manufacturing firm, lived at
the southeast corner of Sixteenth and Chestnut Streets of
which the photograph has been taken. A few years since a
consolidation took place between two most important
establishments, the title now being The Powers-Weightman-
Rosengarten Company, with a world-wide reputation,
giving Philadelphia pre-eminence in the industry.
Mrs. Rosengarten, whose portrait we are privileged to
show, was Miss Richardson, a lovely, accomplished woman,
a splendid musician, a linguist and well versed in literature,
ancient and modern. Her correspondence entitled Eight
Journeys Abroad has recently been published (with several
hundred illustrations) as a memorial by her devoted husband.
Mention has already been made of Mr. Rosengarten's
brother, the late Joseph G. Rosengarten, one of Philadel-
phia's best and noblest citizens.
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1532 Chestnut Street, southeast corner of Sixteenth Street. Residence of
George p. Rosengarten
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179
MRS. FRANK H. ROSENGARTEN'
[Mary D. Richardson]
1846- 1913
{From the portrait in oil by Alice Kent Stoddard)
1903 WALNUT STREET
(27' x 140')
— John D. Jones.
1856 — Samuel Norris.
1886 — Hannah and Emily Norris.
1905 — Emily Norris Vaux.
Henry Norris was the son of Joseph Parker Norris. He
represented the third generation of Norrises to be born in
this country, his ancestor, Isaac Norris, having arrived in
Philadelphia from Jamaica in 1693. Henry Norris was
born in 181 1 in the old Norris mansion, at present the site
of the Custom House on Chestnut Street below Fifth. By
birth a member of the Society of Friends, he later became
affiliated with the Episcopal Church, but before his death
returned to the Quaker fold. He lived to be 93 years of age,
having enjoyed excellent health up until a few days of his
death. He was a familiar figure on Walnut Street, where
he could be seen disdainful of an overcoat, wearing a high
silk hat, and with immaculately polished shoes.
A further generation was Joseph Parker Norris, who
was my classmate at Dr. Faires' Classical Institute in the
late fifties of the last century.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Megargee Wright are the present
occupants.
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HEXRY NORRIS
1811 - 1904
1901 WALNUT STREET
Northwest corner of Nineteenth Street
(ioo' x 140')
i860 — James and John Slevin.
iS7>4 — Algernon S. Roberts, and retained by his descendants.
James Slevin was a well-known merchant at this period,
his office was at 24S Chestnut Street. Our friend, William
Northwest corner Nineteenth and Walnut Streets
{Courtesy of Frank H. Taylor)
C. Watson, told me some months since that he recalled
the younger Slevin at this address when they were school-
mates in the fifties of the last century.
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Past and Present 183
Here was erected a very handsome white marble house
with columns in front, built by Philip Physick, a member
of the Bar. His father being a man of means, every oppor-
tunity was given to the son for a liberal education. Later
PHILIP PHYSICK
1807- 1848
{From the portrait in oil by Thomas Sully; courtesy of Edward Conner, Esq.)
he became interested in the cultivation of the mulberry tree
for the silk worm and silk manufacture, which promised to
be a successful industry at the time, and organizations were
formed for the Moras Multicaulis; this went on for a period,
the community was applied to for subscriptions, but the
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venture was not a success and he was obliged to relinquish
his splendid establishment. As an indication of the atti-
tude of well-known men of the period it may be stated
that his father, the eminent Dr. Physick, Horace Binney,
and a long array of prominent men petitioned the City Legis-
lature not to introduce gas, pointing out the peril, disease
and ruin it would cause.
ALGERNON SYDNEY ROBERTS, Sr.
1797- 1865
The mansion finally came into the possession of Algernon
Sydney Roberts, who occupied it until his death, and it was
subsequently occupied by his son and daughters, the Misses
Roberts, the last of whom recently died. The property was
sold to a syndicate and announcement was made that an
apartment house was to be erected thereon, but probably
owing to difficulties of financial arrangement the plan has
been abandoned and the property is again for sale.
Past and Present
185
This splendid site will be used for the purpose lately
intended as soon as normal conditions have been obtained.
During the late war it was occupied for some time by
the French War Relief Committee of the Emergency Aid
of Pennsylvania, under the able management of the late
Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson.
Photo by Somers
ALGERNON SYDNEY ROBERTS, Jr.
1827- 1906
Philadelphia grieves over the death of this noble woman.
She was indeed an inspiration to young and old; to those
who had the privilege of an intimate friendship, as also to
the thousands who knew her only by the written word or by
the record of her work accomplished.
Of the many expressions of appreciation that have
appeared in the public prints the resolutions adopted by the
French War Relief Committee seem appropriate for inclu-
sion at this time.
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November 26, 1921: A memorial to the late Mrs. Cornelius
Stevenson will be placed in the French villages of Villequier-
Aumont and Ugny-le-Gay. That decision was reached yesterday
by the French War Relief Committee of the Emergency Aid of
Pennsylvania, which met at 221 South Eighteenth Street. The
memorial will be erected with funds held by the French committee
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[Sara Yorke]
1847- 1921
which raised $1,500,000 under Mrs. Stevenson's chairmanship
during the war.
Resolutions of sympathy reflecting the beauty of the life of
Mrs. Stevenson were adopted. They and the verses forming a
part of them were written by Miss Frances Brinley Wharton,
chairman of the Resolutions Committee and secretary of the
French committee. Mrs. Joseph Leidy presided.
Past and Present 187
The resolutions read:
"In the death of Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson the French War
Relief Committee has lost the very mainspring of its being.
"Ardent, eager, passionately devoted to the cause of France,
with an unlimited power of work, she was a constant source of
inspiration to all the members of her committee. Wise in counsel,
fertile in resource, prompt in action, utterly unsparing of her time
and strength, she was uniformly gentle, serene and tactful in her
relations with others, and those who worked under her guidance
know how generous and ready was her appreciation of every effort
to second her.
"She had a proud and valiant spirit, a warm heart, responding
to all the varied emotions of human life, while her quick wit, her
keen sense of mirth and her constant cheerfulness bore witness to
the truth of the French proverb, 'La gaiete c'est la plus jolie
forme du courage!'
"The members of the French War Relief Committee unite in
a deep sense of her loss, in gratitude for the privilege of working
under such a leader, and in thankfulness that she lived to see the
triumph of France and some of the results of her labors toward
the reconstruction of that great country. Honors due honors
were hers from the heads of the French Republic, though she did
not, alas! live to share in the welcome which her city gave the great
Marshal Foch, and to know the crowning happiness of being placed
at his side at the banquet tendered to him. These honors she
justly prized, but far, far more deeply the poignant gratitude of
myriads of suffering French people, who were consoled, helped,
healed, blessed, through her unfailing love and untiring devotion.
Now she has passed on beyond, and her works do follow her, while
her beloved memory remains to stir and inspire.
"We do not ask for her eternal rest,
It may be in some wider regions still
Her tireless spirit works the Master's will
And so is blest.
"But let her know, forever calm and bright,
A tranquil radiance, showing fair and clear
All that seems strange and dark and troubled here —
Perpetual light!"
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Sara Yorke Stevenson was born in Paris (of American
parentage), where her youthful education was received.
Joining her brothers in Mexico in 1862, she resided there
until 1867, witnessing the tragic events that prevailed in
that country during the period. Coming to Philadelphia,
it was to her initiative and indomitable perseverance that
the Archaeological Museum of the University of Pennsyl-
vania was founded and continued on its successful career,
and many of us believe that this is the most durable memorial
to her earlier achievements. In later years Mrs. Stevenson's
presentation to the public through the title of "Peggy Ship-
pen" in the Philadelphia Public Ledger has brought her in
close contact with the widest circle, exercising an influence
of immeasurable importance.
Coypriyht by Moses King
COL. JOHN HARE POWEL
Inspector-General, General Scott's Staff; State Senator; Stock Farmer; Art
Collector
1829 WALNUT STREET
Northeast corner Nineteenth and Walnut Streets
(50' x 235')
— Samuel Powel.
i860 — Alexander Brown.
1902 — John H. McFadden.
1917 RlTTENHOUSE SQUARE REALTY COMPANY.
On this site Samuel Powel constructed a fine brown-stone
dwelling. Mr. Powel was born in West Philadelphia and
Powelton takes its name from the family who were the prin-
cipal owners of that section. John Hare Powel also lived
here; he served as Inspector General U. S. Army in the
years 18 14-15.
Alexander Brown became the owner in i860; he was an
accomplished gentleman, interested in all good works; for
years was chairman of the Finance Committee and a liberal
contributor to the treasury of the American Sunday School
Union. His son, John A. Brown, Jr., lived here until his
marriage, when he acquired No. 224 South Nineteenth Street,
just referred to.
Samuel Powel, the predecessor to the above, who lived
at 39 Clinton Street prior to 1850, comments, "People here
call this City 'Filthy Dirty' instead of 'Philadelphia."
Today we look for a radical change under the present
administration.
John Howard McFadden was a Philadelphian by birth
and association. Attending the Episcopal Academy he
became a merchant at an early age and was soon known
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internationally as a philanthropist, connoisseur and cotton
merchant. Notwithstanding his continued interest in the
firm of cotton brokers, he was a most liberal patron of the
arts and medical science. In his frequent travels abroad
Mr. McFadden became intimately acquainted with' all the
great artists, sculptors, actors and medical men. Many
ALEXANDER BROWX
1857- 1893
(Courtesy American Sunday School Union)
institutions benefited by his philanthropy both here and
abroad, and many private charities were aided in a modest
and unassuming manner. The notable brown-stone man-
sion so long a feature of the northeast corner of Nineteenth
street and the Square, where Mr. McFadden lived for a
number of years, was removed and the "Wellington" apart-
ment house stands in its place. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden
Past and Present
191
lived in specially prepared suites where were housed the
finest privately owned collection of eighteenth-century
English paintings in existence. He was always ready to
place his collections at the disposal of artists and connoisseurs
who wished to study the paintings. The collection is
JOHN H. McPADDEN
1850- 1921
impressive, including as it does canvases by Romney,
Raeburn, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough, Sir Thomas
Lawrence, Constable, Turner, and many other noted
English painters. The munificent bequest of this collec-
tion to the city of Philadelphia is a glorious acquisition and
will place the name of John H. McPadden in the forefront
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of the City's benefactors, causing his name and character
to be revered for all time.
Mrs. McFadden, who was Miss Florence Bates, survived
her husband but a few months.
The members of the family are two sons, Philip and John
H. McFadden, Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Jasper Y. Brinton.
1827 WALNUT STREET
(zi' x 2 35')
1856 — George I. Weaver.
1865 — Alfred Fitler.
1 88 1 — Clayton French.
1891 — Robert K. McNeely.
1920 — Philadelphia Art Alliance.
In 1856 George I. Weaver was the resident and was engaged
in ship chandlery on a large scale, the firm being an impor-
tant one in the commercial history of our port. In 1870 Mr.
Weaver was harbormaster of the Port of Philadelphia, a
position full of responsibility. He was also associated with
the late Edwin H. Fitler in the extensive rope-works of that
company.
In the year 1882 Clayton French occupied this house, a
fine four-story brown-stone front building with high steps, a
style of architecture that was prevalent at that time. Mr.
French was the senior partner of French, Richards & Com-
pany, manufacturing and wholesale chemists, whose exten-
sive warehouse was on the northwest corner of Tenth and
Market Streets, a landmark for several generations, and
some of us can remember the great fire that took place,
destroying the entire structure; the firm then occupied,
temporarily, the vacant market house at Tenth above Chest-
nut, now the Mercantile Library. Subsequently, the firm
was dissolved, one branch being Smith, Kline & French at
Fifth and Arch, a combination of several concerns, Harry
B. French representing the original family; the other branch
being Samuel H. French & Company at Fourth and Old York
Road, of which Howard B. French is the surviving partner,
a man widely known for his active participation in all good
municipal work.
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Of Clayton French, his biographer notes his diligence in
study in early life, which developed later into remarkable
business acumen, resulting in exceptional financial success.
Of his activities may be mentioned a special partnership in
the firm of Bailey, Banks & Biddle, a director in the Guar-
antee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, the Pennsylvania
CLAYTON FRENCH
1824- 1890
Warehousing Company, the Pennsylvania Salt Manufactur-
ing Company, the Charleston (S. C.) Mining and Manu-
facturing Company, and from 1873 until the time of his
death, member of the Executive Council of the Philadelphia
Board of Trade. He was one of the organizers of the Phila-
delphia Drug Exchange and a member of the first Board of
Directors, serving for many years.
Of Clayton French's grandsons, one well known is Clay-
ton French Banks, one of the vice-presidents of the Guaranty
Past and Present 195
Trust Company of New York and the company's representa-
tive in Philadelphia.
In the thirties of the last century, members of the French
family living nearby would visit Rittenhouse Square to shoot
wild ducks as an early morning pastime.
FRANK HASELTINE
1840- 1910
1825 WALNUT STREET
(23' x 235')
c. 1S21 — James Harper.
1855 — Ward B. Haseltine.
1890 — Frank Haseltine.
1917 — Samuel P. Wetherill.
191S — Philadelphia Art Alliance.
Ward B. Haseltine, merchant in wholesale dry goods, was
here in 1N59; his son Frank, whose picture is shown, also
lived here as late as 1880.
Ward B. Haseltine was one of the original members of
the LInion Club which later developed into our present Union
League.
Frank Haseltine studied law, but was so deeply interested
in art that he became a painter of portraits and landscape, his
pictures being shown in exhibitions both here and in other
cities. He traveled abroad extensively, and on his return
to this country, surrounded bv books and art objects, his
society was eagerly sought by friends and acquaintances.
His mother, Mrs. Ward B. Haseltine, was the sister of Rev.
Rufus H. Bent, now living in De Lancev Place.
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1823 WALNUT STREET
(44' x 235')
— John Grigg.
1867 — John A. Brown.
1881 — Emma Audenried, wife of John T. Audenried.
1917 — Samuel P. Wetherill.
191 8 — Philadelphia Art Alliance.
This is an extensive double-front, brown-stone house, also
with high steps, erected and occupied by John Grigg, who
adopted as his motto Bolingbroke's definition of biography:
"The practical philosophy of life taught by examples."
Mr. Grigg was a farmer's boy and, tiring of the country
life, entered the merchant marine, acquiring habits of in-
dustry, decision and self-reliance. When a vouth he lived
in Richmond, Va., and in Warren County, Ohio, where
he became clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Chan-
cery, winning the esteem of Justice McLean, of the Supreme
Court of the United States, as also that of Thomas Corwin,
later Secretary of the United States Treasury.
From this position he was taken to be the superintendent
of an extensive woolen mill in Kentucky, but, his ambition
seeking a wider field, he came to Philadelphia, and, like Benja-
min Franklin, without means, employment or outward sup-
port, he soon secured a position, for, passing the bookstore of
Benjamin Warner, he entered, applied for work, and, his
personality being impressive, he was engaged and in a few
years mastered the business, learning the name of every
book in the establishment, its price, its place on the shelf
and the publisher's name. Upon Mr. Warner's death his
will designated Grigg as his proper successor in these words,
"I consider John Grigg as possessing a peculiar talent for the
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book-selling business, very industrious, and, after years of
observation, I have found nothing in his conduct to raise a
doubt in my mind as to his possessing correct principles."
Gngg's friends applied to him the sentiment first attached
JOHN GRIGG
1792- 1864
(Courtesy of Hie J. B. Lippincott Company)
to Constable, of Edinburgh, Sir Walter Scott's publisher
and printer, "Napoleon of the Realm of Print." After the
settlement of the Warner estate, Henry C. Carey, to whom
had been submitted the papers, stated, "No business had
ever been managed with more tact and skill than this com-
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plicated estate." However, the executor decided to close
the estate, and young Gngg, out of work, consulted Joseph
Gushing, of Baltimore, an eminent citizen of that city, and a
bookseller and publisher of repute whom I had the privilege
of knowing in the early years of my own business career.
JOHN A. BROWX
1788- 1872
{Courtesy American Sunday School Union)
Cushing persuaded Grigg to start his own establishment,
which he did on Fourth Street above Market, where he
greatly prospered, retiring in 1856, being succeeded by
Joshua B. Lippincott, a successful bookseller and publisher,
to whom reference has just been made.
After the death of Mrs. Grigg, the property was sold in
1867 to John A. Brown, who had lived at the southeast
corner of Twelfth and Chestnut, which later had been pur-
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chased by the late Dr. S. S. White, the world's foremost
manufacturer of dental material.
Mr. Brown was interested in the welfare of the American
Sunday School Union, being president from 1861 to 1872.
This merchant, banker and philanthropist was born in
Ballymena, Ireland, and, owing to political agitation, he
emigrated with his father, a man of ample fortune, to Balti-
more at the beginning of the 19th century. Coming to
Copyright by Ifotts King
John A. Brown's residence, southeast corner Twelfth and Chestnut Streets,
in 1828
Philadelphia to represent the firm's interests, he soon be-
came an important member of the community and was
chosen director in the U. S. Bank at the time of the
presidency of Nicholas Biddle.
I quote from a publication of the American Sunday
School Union:
Like an experienced pilot, he was able to steer it amid con-
flicting projects, bitter animosity and divided counsels, which
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endangered its life. Under his administration, as president, the
Society came safely through the greatest crisis in the history of
the Country. Its affairs were extricated from confusion without
jarring the harmony which has been restored between its manage-
ment and friends.
JOHN T. AUDEXRIED
1838- 1884
The house subsequently became the property of John T.
Audenried, who was interested in the development of coal-
fields; he was a member of the Committee of 100 of 1881.
His son is the present Honorable Charles Y. Audenried,
Judge of Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia. Recently,
with the adjoining Nos. 1825 and 1827, it has been presented
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to the Art Alliance, through the generosity of Samuel Price
Wetherill.
Col. Thomas A. Scott, when vice-president of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company, was a tenant in 1867.
Mr. and Mrs. Jason Waters also lived here for a \ ear or
two; Mrs. Waters was the daughter of George S. Pox, the
well-known banker.
MRS. JOHN T. AUDENRIED
[Emma Young, daughter of Charles Your
1842 - 1900
1821 WALNUT STREET
(22' X235')
1 82 1 — James Harper.
i860 — George F. Peabody.
1885 — Cecilia Moore.
1897 — Joseph Moore, Jr.
Built in 1857 by George F. Peabody, of the Gloucester
Manufacturing Company, or Print Works, upon ground and
with bricks presented to him by his father-in-law, James
Harper, of whom something will be stated later.
In 1885 Mrs. Joseph Moore purchased the property, and
upon her death in June, 1897, her son, Joseph Moore, Jr.,
became the owner. Mrs. Moore was a sister of Edwin H.
Fitler, former mayor of Philadelphia.
Mr. Moore was a bachelor,, a man of attractive person-
ality and fine attainments. An author of distinction, his
books were well known, both here and in Europe, and his
contributions on kindred subjects had made him a Fellow
of the Royal Geographical Society and of the French Society
of Geography.
Mr. Moore passed through the entire Friends' Educa-
tional System and received his early business training in the
dry goods house of Jacob Riegel & Company, the leading
firm in the early days of our generation. Withdrawing from
business in 1876, he devoted years to travel and study,
covering Europe, Asia, Africa and America, studying French
at Blois, German at Hanover, and international law under
the late Dr. Francis Wharton.
Of his many activities in his native city may be men-
tioned membership in the Board of Managers of Drexel
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Institute; the Academy of Music Corporation, prior to its
recent transfer to the body of which Mr. Edward W. Bok is
president; Edwin Forrest Home for Actors, of which he was
once president; for many years chairman of the Member-
Photo by Gray- -II', < 'urns Taylor .t- i 'v .
MRS. JOSEPH MOORE
[Cecilia Pitler]
1820 - 1897
ship Committe of The Union League; trustee of the Fair-
mount Park Art Association in earlier years; director m
the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, the Penn-
sylvania Warehousing Company, the County Fire Insurance
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Company, and the Franklin Fire Insurance Company. The
position in later years to which he gave most attention was
the presidency of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing
Company.
Mr. Moore died in February, 1921, bequeathing his large
estate to the creation of an institution for the education of
young girls — a noble benefaction.
I'hoto by Phillip*
JOSEPH MOORE, Jr.
1849- 1921
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SAMUEL F. FISHER
1819 WALNUT STREET
(22' 8"x23 5 ')
c. i860 — Samuel F. Fisher.
1862 — George S. Pepper.
— Sabine J. Weightman, widow ofWm. Weightman, Jr.
Samuel F. Fisher was the predecessor of the Fisher family
which has always been prominent in the intellectual and social
life of the community. In commercial life he was president
of the Lehigh Zinc Co., treasurer of the Pennsylvania Salt
Manufacturing Co., and it was from this latter that the copy
of his likeness was obtained from a group picture of the direc-
torate, he being one of the early incorporators, since its
charter dates from the year 1850.
George S. Pepper was a native of Philadelphia, a graduate
of Princeton and studied law with Horace Binney. Of his
many activities may be noted his interest in the founding of
the American Academy of Music at Broad and Locust
Streets, of which he was chairman of the Building Com-
mittee in 1857 and later president of the Board. He was
president of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
succeeding James L. Claghorn on the latter's death. He
was an active member of The Union League and president
of the Rittenhouse Club, to which he bequeathed his splendid
library, and those who have had the privilege of membership
in the Club feel a sense of gratitude to the memory of Mr.
Pepper for this munificent gift.
Other members of the familv have won distinction in
Philadelphia's annals: William Piatt Pepper, president of
the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, and
Dr. William Pepper, provost of the University of Pennsyl-
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vania, a physician of eminence and one of the main support-
ers if not the founder of our Free Library; and the present
Hon. George Wharton Pepper, of national repute, recently
appointed U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
GEORGE S. PEPPER
1808- 1890
(From the painting by Vonnoh: courtesy of Rittcnlioiist
William Weightman lived here about the year 1893, and
later his son and daughter-in-law, who was Miss D'lnvilhers.
Subsequent to the death of Mr. Weightman, Jr., his widow
became the wife of Jones Wister. Mrs. W ister is still resident
there.
Jones Wister was born in the family homestead in Bel-
field, Germantown. He was an enthusiastic cricketer and
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vitally interested in all out-door sports, although finding
time to serve as trustee of the Pennsylvania Museum and
School of Industrial Art, an institution that has taken front
rank in the Country's efforts for high standards of art in the
industries. Mr. Wister was a member of The Union League
and an earnest supporter of the National Government during
the critical days of the Civil War.
Photo by Phillips
JONES WISTER
1839- 1917
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WILLIAM G. COCHRAN
1799- 1883
1817 WALNUT STREET
(22' X" x 235')
c. 1855 — John Grigg.
1859 — William G. Cochran.
1890 — Virginia R. C. MacVeagh, wife of Wayne MacVeagh.
1900 — Edward M. Robinson.
1908 — Henry C. Trumbower.
William G. Cochran was born in Person County, N. C.
and came to Philadelphia in the year 1825, first embarking
in the shipping business, but later becoming one of the largest
wine importers in the United States. Mr. Cochran was a
director of the Citizens' Passenger Railway Company, of
the Philadelphia National Bank, and interested in many
other financial institutions.
Wayne MacVeagh was a graduate of Yale and during
the Civil War was captain of infantry and later major of
cavalry. Of his public career may be mentioned: U. S.
Minister to Turkey, 1870-71; U. S. Attorney General,
1881, in President Garfield's Cabinet; U. S. Ambassador
to Italy, 1893-97; Chief Counsel U. S. in 1903 at the Ven-
ezuelan Arbitration and at The Hague Tribunal. Although
he was the son-m-law of Simon Cameron, a political power
at the time, he led a successful revolt against that dominant
influence. Mr. MacVeagh was born in Phoenixville, Pa.
During his college life he showed the remarkable qualities
of irony and sarcasm that distinguished his political career.
Mrs. MacVeagh was Virginia R. Cameron, daughter of
Simon Cameron, Secretary of War in the cabinet of Abra-
ham Lincoln, then Minister to Russia and later U. S. Sen-
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ator from Pennsylvania. Her brother, J. Donald Cameron,
was also U. S. Senator from our State for a number of years.
Edward Moore Robinson was associated with Drexel
& Co., as were his father and step-father, J. Hood Wright.
EDWARD MOORE ROBINSON
1867 or 1868- 1910
(Photograph by Haessler from /he painting by Julian Story)
Mr. Robinson was of distinguished appearance and had
hosts of friends. His wife was Alene Ivers, a woman of
remarkable beauty and great attainments.
Mrs. Robinson predeceased her husband by only a few
days.
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Pfwto by Wenderotll
ROBERT S. STURGIS
1824- 1876
1815 WALNUT STREET
(22' 8" x 2 3S ')
c. 1852 — John R. Worrell.
1862 — Robert S. Sturgis.
1874 — Susan B. Sturgis.
1901 — Henrietta A. S. Ingersoll, wife of Charles E. Ingersoll.
The three houses, 1815, 1817 and 1819, were built bv John
R. Worrell, a man of affluence and noted as merchant and
broker, whose office was at 138 South Third Street. Mr.
Worrell occupied No. 181 5, and in 1862 Robert S. Sturgis,
a native of Massachusetts, came to Philadelphia from Boston
to enjoy the advantages of our milder climate.
Mr. Sturgis lived in China in his earlier years, his father
being largely engaged in Chinese trade.
Mrs. Sturgis survived her husband for a number of years
and was greatly admired for her personal attractions and
generous hospitality. Her daughters ranked as the most
beautiful young women in Philadelphia — Mrs. Charles
Edward Ingersoll, who with Mr. Ingersoll is now resident
therein; Mrs. James Potter; Mrs. Robert LeConte; and
Mrs. Edgar Scott.
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.MRS. ROBERT S. STURGIS
183S- 1900
1813 WALNUT STREET
(26' 6" x 235')
1S21 — James Harper.
1S54 — Harriet S. Dodson.
1870 — Thomas Sparks.
1890 — Rittenhouse Club.
Richard W. Dodson had a wide circle of friends in Phila-
delphia. His daughter Sarah was a beautiful girl and an
artist excelling in black-and-white sketches. After Mr.
Dodson's death the family left Philadelphia and settled in
Brighton, England.
Thomas Sparks is represented as a member of the Gray
Reserves; a later portrait is of the mature man, owner of
the noted Shot Tower near the Old Swedes' Church. Mr.
Sparks was vice-president of the Southwark National Bank,
president of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Com-
pany, vestryman of St. James' Episcopal Church, now at
Twenty-second and Walnut, formerly on Seventh above
Market, in front of which were splendid shade trees which
had to yield to the inroads of commerce.
Thomas Weston Sparks was a grand-nephew of Thomas
Sparks, builder and original owner of the old Philadelphia
Shot Tower at Front and Carpenter Streets. He entered
the shot-manufacturing business with his father at the age
of seventeen, in which he continued until 1905, when he
retired.
Mr. Sparks was a member of the vestry and rector's
warden of Old Swedes' Church; senior director of the Penn-
sylvania Salt Works; member of the Franklin Institute,
Historical Society and of several Masonic organizations.
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He^was a descendant of the Richard Sparks who was interred
in the year 1716 on Fifth Street in front of the present
Bourse building, an enclosure remembered by those of mv
generation. The spot is now marked bv a pavement tablet
suitably inscribed recounting the circumstances attending
the removal to New Jersey in 1894.
RICHARD W. DODSON
1S12- 1S67
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The Richard Sparks Burial Ground
For The Seventh Day Baptists
Established A. D. 1716
Taken for widening Fifth Street A. D. 1894
I his tablet designates the plot of ground devised by Richard
Sparks as a burial ground for the use of the Society ot Seventh
MRS. RICHARD W. DODSON
[Harriet Styles Ball]
1S22 - 1902
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Day Baptists and in which he was interred in the year 1716.
Members of this Society were here buried until 1802, and the
grounds remained unchanged until taken by the City in 1894.
To perpetuate the gift of Richard Sparks, the Seventh Day
Baptist Churches of Piscataway, New Market, Middlesex County;
MISS SARAH PAXTON BALL DODSON
1847- 1906
and Shiloh, Cumberland County, New Jersey, have set apart a
plot of ground in Shiloh S. D. B. Cemetery, in which is placed
the monument which was here erected; and the original records
are now in the custody of the said churches.
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221
One of the noted citizens buried here was John Cad-
walader, the great-great-great-grandfather of our present
distinguished fellow-citizen, the Hon. John Cadwalader.
The Rittenhouse Club was organized under the title ot
Social Art Club in the year 1875 by a group of men inter-
ested in art and literature. Its first home was at 1525
Chestnut Street, a spacious house with a garden, but the
THOMAS SPARKS
Member Gray Reserves, 1861
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advance of commercial interests indicated the desirability
of ownership in a residence neighborhood, so that 1811
Walnut Street was acquired in the year 1878, followed by
the purchase of the adjoining property, 1813 Walnut Street,
in 1890. The first president was Theodore Cuyler, followed
by Dr. Caspar Wister, George S. Pepper, Hon. Craig Biddle,
and Thomas De Witt Cuyler in the order named.
THOMAS SPARKS
1817- 1874
Past and Present 223
In the year 1888, the Art Club having been established,
it was considered advisable to change the name from the
Social Art Club to the Rittenhouse Club, which was accord-
ingly accomplished, although not without opposition from
some of the members.
Photo by Keely, Philadelphia
MRS. THOMAS SPARKS
[Annie Eliza Brown]
1819- 1890
To accentuate the opening of the club house when estab-
lished facing Rittenhouse Square, a reception was given,
attended by the members and their friends to whom a
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limited number of invitations had been extended, the latter
including wives, sisters and sweethearts who were thus
privileged to inspect the quarters where their male relatives
derived inspiration from books and pictures of choice quality
and beautv.
Photo by Phoiocraflt'rs
THOMAS WESTON SPARKS
1854- 1921
An architectural feature of merit has been the removal
of the discordant faces of the two buildings and the erection
of an attractive unified front.
1811 WALNUT STREET
(28' 3" x 235')
1821 — James Harper.
1878 — Social Art Club (now the Rittenhouse Club).
[From the memorial address by James Page]
James Harper was born in Tyrone County, Ireland, in
1780 and came to Philadelphia with his parents and family
in 1791, where he served his time to the art of brick-making,
later establishing the business which he pursued successfully
Residence of James Harper, 1811 Walnut Street
(Sketched by Kennedy. Courtesy of Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
until his retirement in 1848. He was the first to originate
the process of making bricks by machinery, but the opposi-
tion to its adoption was so keen that the yard and all the
machinery therein was destroyed by a mob in 1844.
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Harper took an interest in communal affairs, being a
member of the Board of Guardians of the Poor; also of the
Board of Prison Inspectors and of the Philadelphia Common
Council, 1821-22. In 1832 he sat in the U. S. Congress with
his colleague, Hon. Horace Binney, and in 1834 with the
JAMES HARPER
1780- 1873
(From the engraving by Bather, jV. Y.; courtesy of the librarian of the Masonic Temple at Philadelphia)
Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll. He had the honor of presiding
at the banquet given to General Lafayette, on the occasion
of the latter's visit to Philadelphia in 1824.
Harper's brickyards were on the north side of Walnut
between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets, a section that
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he had bought at one dollar per foot and had disposed of
from time to time at twenty dollars per foot. About the
year 1840 he erected the first dwelling in the block; it had
a handsome white marble portico and people would take
their Sunday walk to see this extraordinary structure,
Xos. 1815, 1813, and 1811 Walnut Street
probably the only one of its character in the City. The
bricks that he made were used in the construction of the
Lippincott mansion at Broad and Walnut Streets; they
bore his initials, J. H., stamped in the clay just as was done
in the Babylonian tablets thousands of years ago.
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1804- 1868
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Perott's Mall House, northeast corner Spruce and Twenty-first Streets
[Sketched by Kennedy. < 'ourtesy of Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
1809 WALNUT STREET
(25' 3" x 235')
1862 — William Gaul.
1863 — Sarah Jane Potter.
1866 — Rosine E. Groesbeck.
1884 — Thomas Dolan.
1914 — Sarah Brooke Dolan.
William Gaul was a brewer prior to and during the early
sixties. At one time he was associated with Theodore C.
Lewis in the firm of Gaul & Lewis, manufacturers of malt.
The illustration shows the Perott malthouse which stood at
the northeast corner of Twenty-first and Spruce Streets, a
building well remembered by those of us who lived in that
neighborhood.
Mrs. Rosine E. Groesbeck was a Miss Benoist, from
Louisiana, who lived here about the year 1867. R. Benoist
Groesbeck, presumably the son of the above, was known as
the "Duke" on account of the lavishness of his entertain-
ments. There are members of the family now in Cincinnati,
Ohio, and William G. Groesbeck is a resident in Philadelphia
nearby this historic neighborhood.
Thomas Dolan, a native of Montgomery County of our
State, was a prominent citizen occupying important posi-
tions in manufacturing organizations of a municipal char-
acter. Having acquired a large fortune, he retired from
business, directing his attention to public utilities, partic-
ularly the United Gas Improvement Company, many street
railways, and industries of that character. He was a staunch
Republican, one of the first members of The Union League,
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MRS. ROSINE GROESBECK
{Photograph ft// Sherry, Saratoga Springs, N . Y.)
BENOIST GROESBECK
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and a vice-president tor several years; was a strong sup-
porter of the high protective tariff, and among his other
activities was membership in the directorate of the Finance
Company of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Electric Company
Pholo fin Gulekunst
THOMAS DOLAN
1834- 1914
and the School of Industrial Art; notwithstanding all of
these, he was a lover of literature, had a splendid library in
his country home at Torresdale on the Delaware, and in his
city house.
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Photo hi/ (luti Iru/hst
THEODORE C. LEWIS
1824- 1866
1807 WALNUT STREET
(22' x 141')
1 82 1 — James Harper.
1849 — James Markoe.
1851 — Theodore C. Lewis.
1862 — Alfred D. Jessup.
1863 — Frances A. Lawrence, wife of Francis C. Lawrence.
1871 — Alexander B. and Samuel Carver.
1907 — Louis Plumer Posey, M.D.
Theodore C. Lewis, after receiving an academic education,
first entered the business house of Johnston & Tingley, which
later became Tingley, Burton & Co., wholesale dry goods,
on Market Street.
After several successful voyages as supercargo to China
he became a member of the firm of John A. Lewis & Co., in
the Chinese, Portuguese and English general commission
business, from which he retired to become associated with
his wife's uncle, William Gaul, in the firm of Gaul & Lewis,
manufacturers of malt.
James Harper was also the owner as early as 1S21 when
this whole section was brickyards. In 1881 Alexander Burton
Carver became the owner and lived here until his death in
1905. During his early life he was connected with the
diplomatic service at Cadiz, Spain. Returning to Philadel-
phia in 1845, he established the firm of A. B. Carver & Com-
pany, conveyancers, of which his brother was a member.
They were both bachelors and frequently could be seen
encircling the Square for an evening walk, inseparable com-
panions. They were both members of Holy Trinity Church
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and of secular institutions, such as the Historical and Hor-
ticultural Societies and many charitable organizations.
Louis Plumer Posey, M.D., was a Philadelphian by
birth, receiving his preliminary education at the Episcopal
Academy. He entered the University of Pennsylvania and
ALEXANDER BURTOX CARVER
1816- 1905
Past and Present 235
later graduated from Hahnemann Medical College. A man
of agreeable personality, added to professional skill, he
commanded an extensive practice and wide recognition from
those of the school he had adopted.
DR. LOUIS PLUMER POSEY
1863- 1917
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FREDERICK J. SYLVESTER
1812- 1893
1805 WALNUT STREET
(22' x 145')
— Susan Van Syckel.
1864 — Sarah Sylvester.
1882 — Sarah Cazenove Roberts.
1907 — John V. Shoemaker, M.D.
In the year 1858 Alfred Slade lived here; he was a com-
mission merchant with offices at No. 39 Letitia Street.
Frederick J. Sylvester came to Philadelphia from Liver-
pool, England. He was a member of the Philadelphia Stock
Exchange.
His two sons, Frederick and Charles, recently deceased,
were prominent in real-estate circles.
G. Theodore Roberts, who died in New York recentlv,
was the owner in 1886. He was the son of Algernon Sidney
Roberts, just referred to at Nineteenth and Walnut Streets.
With other members of the family he was interested in the
development of the anthracite coal-fields, near Hazleton.
Fond of travel, he spent many years abroad. His daughter
is Miss Elizabeth W. Roberts, of Concord, Mass. A niece
is Mrs. Walter S. Wyatt, of the Wellington, in Philadelphia,
to whom I am indebted for the photographs.
Dr. John V. Shoemaker was a native of Chambersburg,
Pa., and a graduate of Dickinson College, noted for its list
of graduates who have become eminent in all walks of life.
Dr. Shoemaker was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College,
and so high was his class-rank that he was offered the posi-
tion of demonstrator of anatomy and later was chosen lec-
turer on various subjects at the Philadelphia School of
Anatomy.
A monument to the scope of his humanitarian activities
was the founding of a dispensary for the treatment of
cutaneous diseases, in which little instruction was given
at that time.
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In 1889 Dr. Shoemaker took the chair of pharmacology,
therapeutics and clinical medicine at the Medico-Chirurgical
College.
While he soon became eminent in local circles, his fame
spread until his name was known throughout the medical
GEORGE THEODORE ROBERTS
1838- 1921
world by reason of his many publications, especially in the
field of research.
In fact, his activities amazed his associates, since not
only did he follow his private practice with conscientious
care, but his membership in various medical societies, both
American and foreign, brought many responsibilities in the
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form of addresses here and abroad and voluminous contri-
butions to medical literature.
It was his frequent custom to remain in the study until
3 o'clock in the morning, completing articles for medical
Photo by Marceau
DR. JOHN V. SHOEMAKER
1852- 1910
journals, revising proof and making exhaustive effort in
research.
The demands upon his time and skill were continuous
and he was a sacrifice to the science of healing, whose arts
were used upon all except himself.
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WILLIAM R. LEJEE
1812- 1894
1801-1803 WALNUT STREET
(44' x 145')
c. 182S — James Harper.
1849 — William R. Lejee.
1895 — Sarah Drexel Fell, wife of John R. Fel
William R. Lejee was a banker and broker and at one time
a partner with Edward S. Whelen. He was born on Lake
Residence of William R. Lejee, northwest corner Eighteenth and Walnut Streets
Geneva, his father was a lieutenant in the army of the first
Napoleon; resigning his commission, he came to America.
I remember Mr. Lejee as courtly in manner and appearance,
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always perfectly dressed, intelligent and a man of affairs.
The niece, Miss Eugenia J. Marshall, to whom I am indebted
for the portrait and the illustration of the house, lives at
191 1 South Rittenhouse Square.
The property was subsequently acquired by Mr. and
Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer in 1898, and the attractive
stone dwelling was erected thereon, where entertainment
is afforded not only to friends, but to all notable strangers
visiting the City, supporting the reputation of Philadelphia
for a generous hospitality.
Copyright by Moses King
Alexander Van Rensselaer residence, Rittenhouse Square, Walnut Street
northwest corner Eighteenth Street
C3 y^A'ZfS" C0RNER » EIGHTEENTH AND WALNUT
STREETS
^ Q 2i
(62' x 12s')
1858 — Anna H. Wilstach.
1893 — Margarita A. Drexel, wife of Anthony J. Drexel, Jr.
1899 — Frances A. Gibbs, wife of William W. Gibbs.
1913 — Charles J. McIlvain, Jr.
In 1853 James Tennent lived here, the corner being known
at the time as Schuylkill Fifth Street. He was the senior
member of the dry goods firm of Tennent, Dernckson &
Company, at 93 High Street (now Market Street) and 22
Church Alley. In 1858 William P. Wilstach became the
owner; he was engaged in the saddlery business, and left
a handsome fortune as well as a fine collection of works of
art, which were bequeathed to the City of Philadelphia and
have been for many years a great attraction in the galleries
at Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park.
Mrs. Wilstach survived her husband for some years, a
period devoted to deeds of kindness and philanthropy,
thus continuing the acts that had marked his career. The
Apprentices' Library, churches, hospitals and orphan asy-
lums were beneficiaries, and special note should be taken
of the Holy Trinity Memorial Chapel, a gift by Mrs. Wil-
stach in memory of her daughter, Gertrude Wilstach, the
lovely girl whose death at an untimely age had been a sorrow
not only to the widowed mother but to the members of the
congregation who had taken the deepest interest in her
baptism and confirmation.
For some years subsequent to 1893 Colonel and Mrs.
Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., were the owners and residents.
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In the year 1900 William W. Gibbs became the owner
and he commissioned Albert Kelsey (the architect of the
Pan-American Building in Washington, a splendid struc-
ture) to make radical changes in the character of the
house, all of which were carried out, there being a hand-
some railing on Eighteenth Street showing the approach
W. P. WILSTACH
1816- 1870
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to a porte cochere, unusual in character and artistically
accomplished.
Not long since this was removed and at present the site is
occupied by an apartment house, undoubtedly of permanent
character.
MRS. W. P. WILSTACH
1814- 1892
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Northeast corner Eighteenth and Walnut Streets
(Courtesy of architect, Albert Kelsey)
1724 WALNUT STREET
Southeast corner Eighteenth and Walnut Streets
(42' x 175')
— John H. Edwards.
1864 — Sir Charles Edward Keith and Lady Kortright.
1S95 — William Weightman.
My earliest recollection of this property is its occupancy
by George W. Edwards,* who built it, the owner of the St.
George Hotel at Broad and Walnut, later the Stratford,
and now the Bellevue-Stratford. In 1849 Mr. Edwards
was presented with a splendid silver service by the Reading
Railroad Co. for a successful financial operation that he
had carried through. In 1862 the house was occupied by
Sir Charles Edward Keith Kortright, British Consul in
Philadelphia, who had married the daughter of John Rich-
ardson, president of the Bank of North America from 1840
to 1857. Mr. Richardson lived next door at 1722 Walnut
Street; his daughter inherited much wealth, and Sir Charles
and Lady Kortright entertained handsomely throughout
their career.
Sir Charles Kortright was appointed consul at Car-
thagena, New Granada, May 30, 1844; was Acting French
consul there from 1851 till 1856, and received the thanks of
the French Government; was appointed consul for the
State of Pennsylvania, to reside at Philadelphia, July 1, 1857;
and consul for the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, to reside at Phila-
delphia, February 9, 1871; was an honorary commissioner
to the British section of the Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876.
Was knighted October 21, i£
* See Appendix I., page 304.
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Lady Kortright was a liberal contributor to all forms of
charity; she was especially interested in the Presbyterian
Hospital, endowing the Richardson Ward there, and estab-
lishing the Richardson Home at Devon; endowing the
Richardson Memorial Church, Walnut Street below Sixtieth,
GEORGE W. EDWARDS
1805- 1861
(From the portrait in oil by courtesy of George Edwards FiUerman)
and finally leaving a million dollars to be divided between four
Presbyterian objects — home and foreign missions, relief
work, etc.
Later, about 1880, the property was occupied by Miss
Roberts, who became the wife of Count Goffredo Galli,
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Italian consul at Philadelphia; Countess Galli was the
sister of Algernon S. Roherts, who lived at Nineteenth and
Walnut, to whom reference has been made.
The Count and Countess entertained delightfully in
their spacious home, open at all times to distinguished
Americans and to accredited foreigners.
Then, in 1898, William Weightman, of Powers & Weight-
man, became the owner and made many changes in its
Old Stratford Hotel, southwest corner Broad and Walnut Streets
external appearance. He was the largest individual owner
of real estate in Philadelphia. In August, 1920, a writer
to the Philadelphia Public Ledger signing himself "Anti-
quary," commenting upon Peggy Shippen's Diary of the
twentieth of that month, stated that "the front of this house
was constructed of wood and sanded to make it appear like
brown stone."
Upon reading this paragraph I asked the editor of the
Public Ledger for the name and address of "Antiquary";
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they were unable to furnish it, since all records of that
character were not retained. Some days later, calling upon
William W. Longstreth at his office in Walnut Place, the
conversation turned to Old Philadelphia, when he remarked,
Photo by Guttkuml
SIR CHARLES EDWARD KEITH KORTRIGHT
1813- 1888
"My neighbor, Mr. Stevenson Hockley Walsh, has a picture
of the old Quaker buildings that formerly stood on this
site." We crossed the passage-way and inspected the
interesting illustrations. In discussing old Philadelphia I
referred to "Antiquary's" letter to the Ledger, upon which
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Mr. Walsh announced that he was the writer who had
assumed that title, and confirmed his statement, explaining
that when the front of the house was removed he had in-
spected the d bris lying on the pavement, consisting of the
sanded wood as noted above.
LADY KORTRIGHT
(From a painting, by courtesy of the officers of the Presbyterian Hospital, West Philadelphia)
Mr. Weightman was a native of Waltham, in Lincoln-
shire, England. Coming to America as a youth, he became
associated with John Farr, a manufacturer of chemicals in
Dock Street and the pioneer in the introduction of quinine
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in this country. New machinery was soon created for the
extraction of the drug from Peruvian bark, followed by the
manufacture of morphia and many other important chem-
icals. Maintaining the highest standard of quality, the out-
Pholo by Gulekunst
COUNT GOFFREDO GALLI
1845- 1899
put soon commanded the widest support. Mr. Weightman
was interested in floriculture, a chrysanthemum being known
by his name, and he was always a generous contributor to
the flower shows. He was reputed to be the largest indi-
vidual owner of real estate in Philadelphia, making a practice
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253
to purchase blocks of old houses, have them demolished,
and erect in their place modern dwellings or business estab-
lishments as the neighborhood might demand. Powers and
Weightman were the owners of the house (334 South Twenty-
PhotoJiy'W. Curtis Taylor
COUNTESS GALLI
[Clara Roberts]
1847- 1911
first Street) which we rented at the time of our marriage,
subsequently purchased in 1884, and I can assert there was
never a more considerate landlord during our tenancy than
Mr. Weightman, then the surviving partner.
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Mr. Weightman was interested in the School of Indus-
trial Art, being impressed by its practical worth and capa-
bilities. When asked the secret of his health and longevity,
he would state that a regular schedule of living with the
Photo by Rau
WM. WEIGHTMAN, 1898
1813- 1904
attention given in his youth and early manhood to practical
and healthful athletics was responsible in large measure for
his good physical condition.
Mr. Weightman was a director of the Philadelphia Trust
Company, of the Northern Trust Company, and of the
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Commercial National Bank and associated with many
important financial enterprises. In 1875 the Elliott Cresson
gold medal was awarded the firm by the Franklin Institute
for the introduction of an industry new in the United States,
for the ingenuity and skill shown in the manufacture, and
for the perfection of workmanship.
It is known that Mr. Weightman was anxious to enlist
in the Army at the time of the Civil War, but government
authorities assured him that his leadership in the production
of necessary chemicals was vital to the welfare of the troops,
a fact well recognized at that period.
Copyright by Moses Kind
Southeast corner Eighteenth and Walnut Streets
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JOHN RICHARDSON
President of the Bank of North America, 1840 - 57
1722 WALNUT STREET
(42' x 175')
— Edward S. Whelen.
185 1 — John Richardson.
In the year 1781 Congress passed the ordinance incorpo-
rating the Bank of North America, the first bank so chartered
in the United States. In 1864 the bank came under the
National Bank Act and by consent of the Comptroller of
the Currency was permitted to omit the prefix "National,"
thus retaining its original title.
Thomas Willing was the first president, a man whose
character and ability shed luster on his City and Country.
Horace Binney's tribute is an evidence of the esteem in which
he was held and of an appreciation of his great assistance to
the Country during the period of its early financial struggles.
John Richardson served as president for nearly seventeen
years and on his retirement the directors expressed their
appreciation of his "soundness of judgment and promptness
of action, his strict adherence to right principles, and his
zealous, untiring devotion to the interests of the institution."
"The whole of the long period during which he was in
office," they declared, "had been marked by the most
uninterrupted harmony and mutual respect, and, on the
part of the board, by the highest regard for the excellent
Qualities of Mr. Richardson as an officer and a man."
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221, 223, 225, 227 AND 229 SOUTH EIGHTEENTH STREET
From Chancellor Street on the North to
Locust Street on the South
(75' * 198')
1855 — Joseph Harrison, Jr.
1912 — Edward T. Stotesbury.
The block from Chancellor Street to Locust and from
Eighteenth to Seventeenth. Before the present buildings
were erected the lot was depressed and autumn rainfalls
would flood the ground to the depth of two feet, so that
when the winter temperatures arrived splendid skating
ground was afforded, a boon to the neighbors. There was
an alternate on the brickfields to the southwest, the section
now dominated by Wanamaker's Bethany Church, where
splendid fields of ice in old brickyards were created during
the winter season, but so much lawlessness prevailed,
reputable people hesitated to visit it. At the present time,
however, and owing, in the greatest measure, to that dom-
inating influence of John Wanamaker first referred to, the
section is teeming with an excellent class of worthy citizens
presenting an ideal community.
At this time Joseph Harrison, Jr., had returned from
Russia with a fortune acquired through the building of rail-
ways in that country, the concession having been obtained
through action by the Russian Government in sending a
select committee to this country to inquire as to the fea-
sibility of building their railways. This committee did not
meet with encouragement at the various shops and factories
visited until they reached that of Eastwick and Harrison.
Joseph Harrison, young and energetic, realizing the oppor-
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tunity, gave the committee every information at his com-
mand and accepted their invitation to undertake the work,
agreeing to give it his personal supervision in Russia. He
soon reached St. Petersburg, the present Petrograd, and in
an interview with the Czar in answer to the question as to
JOSEPH HARRISON, Jr.
1810- 1874
the route to be followed from St. Petersburg to Moscow, a
straight line was ordered drawn from one city to the other
and the road was so built.
When Mr. Harrison left America he had but $500 in his
possession and was without letters of credit. In St. Peters-
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burg he met Winans, of Baltimore, who agreed to join with
him in the undertaking. The Russian Government declined
to make any advances of moneys except on completion of
sections, so Harrison, recognizing the necessity for supplies
on credit, visited Wales, introducing himself to Crawshay,
the great ironmaster of the day, and, by means of persuasion
and the evidence of his ability and reliability, obtained from
him a credit of three million dollars for five years without
security; this enabled the contractors to begin work, which,
CYFARTHFA CASTLE
[Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales]
Seat of Crawshay, the Ironmaster
(Courtesy of John II". Lea)
however, was soon interrupted by the demands for graft
from the Russian officials appointed as supervisors. Harri-
son appealed to the central government, stating his case
frankly, and was supported in the stand that he had taken,
so that the roads were dulv completed. In the agreement
there was a provision that if all specifications were faithfullv
carried out, and especially the time limit observed, there
should be paid to the contractors a special compensation
for each individual carried over the lines, covering a definite
period.
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Soon after the completion of the road the war in the
Crimea took place, participated in by Russia on one side,
Turkey, France and Great Britain on the other; necessarily
large numbers of troops were sent over the road, for which
compensation was asked by the contractors on the basis of
the agreement. This the government resisted, but the case
was tried in the courts, a final decision in the Supreme Court
of Russia being granted in favor of Harrison, so that he
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Residence of Joseph Harrison, Jr., Nos. 221, 223 and 225 South Eighteenth
Street, East Rittenhouse Square
returned to Philadelphia with a competent fortune and
purchased the lot referred to above.
Our skating was at an end, which was compensated for
in some measure by the boyish delight in watching the
method of excavation accomplished by digging under a sec-
tion of earth which was toppled over by the use of crowbars,
creating a thundering noise to be heard at a great distance,
the earth being subsequently removed in small horse-drawn
carts, the only method known at that time. Up to that
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period there probably was no building of such a character
erected in any other city of the United States; the main
mansion fronting the Square was designed from a palace in
St. Petersburg that had attracted Mr. Harrison's attention
while living in that city, and his idea of the general garden
Photo by Phillips, Philadelphia
MRS. JOSEPH HARRISON, Jr.
1817- 1906
running to Seventeenth Street, to be used by all the resi-
dents of the row of houses on the north side of Locust Street,
was a novel one in Philadelphia and certainly has its merits.
When Mr. Harrison began negotiations for the purchase
of this plot of ground, it was found that Dr. Isaac Hays, an
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eminent physician of the day (and father of Dr. I. MinisHays,
the distinguished secretary of the American Philosophical
Society), had an agreement with the owner for the sale to
him of the one section at the southeast corner of Eighteenth
and Chancellor. Mr. Harrison appealed to Dr. Hays to
forego his privilege, which the latter assented to, recognizing
that the contemplated improvement was on a formidable
scale and should be yielded to — an evidence of a high stand-
ard of good citizenship.
Before the authorities in the early seventies, Mr. Harrison
placed a comprehensive plan for a central railroad terminal
to run from Thirteenth to Fifteenth Street and from Chest-
nut to Arch Street, tracks to be sunk as they now are in
Edinburgh, a splendid suggestion that could have been
carried out at a moderate cost, but authorities and critics of
that day were not alive to the possibilities of the future and
of the great economy that could have been secured by carry-
ing out such a plan.
With unexampled generosity, Mr. and Mrs. Edward T.
Stotesbury, the owners, have devoted this splendid structure
to the uses of the various societies organized for aid during
the late war, and now it is the established headquarters of
the Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, all of which are factors
of importance in our community and should receive the
heartiest appreciation.
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JOSEPH PIERRE BELL WILMER, D.D.
1812- 1878
First rector St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 1849-61; later Bishop of Louisiana
{From the painting in the Rectory of St. Mark's. Courtesy of Thomas Reath, Esq.)
NORTHEAST CORNER EIGHTEENTH AND LOCUST
STREETS
(60' gy 2 " front on Eighteenth Street)
1858 — Joseph Harrison, Jr.
1884 — Elizabeth C. and Frances A. Roberts.
1917 — Edward T. Stotesbury.
A brown-stone dwelling, little changed from the original
structure erected by Clayton T. Piatt about 1850; he was
a brother of Charles Piatt, to whom reference will be made
later.
For some years it was occupied by the Reverend Dr.
Wilmer, first rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. In
1858 it was conveyed to Joseph Harrison, Jr., when he
acquired the adjoining ground above referred to. John
Nottman was the architect; Nottman was a Scotchman
and designed St. Mark's Church, Holy Trinity, and many
buildings where Gothic art prevailed.
Tradition relates that the original intention was to build
the rectory at the northeast corner of Seventeenth and
Locust, adjoining St. Mark's Church, but the Corporation
realizing that it was not in a position to carry out such an
ambitious plan, Mr. Piatt, a member of the vestry, took
over Nottman's plans, built and occupied the house himself.
Later the property was occupied by Joseph Harrison's
son, William H., who had married Miss Orne. On the second
floor the rooms were continuous, and in the bay window
appeared a beautiful statue in white marble, the Swan of
the Vatican; in the same section was the main picture
gallery, in which Mr. Harrison took great interest. Mr.
Weld, of Boston, was a tenant in 1882, having left Boston
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on account of what he considered unfair local taxation.
Mrs. Eisenbrey, a daughter of Mr. Harrison, lived here for
some time, also Mr. and Mrs. Seth B. Stitt, both of whom
may be remembered; Mr. Stitt for his attractive appearance
and prominence in the woolen trade; Mrs. Stitt for her
interest in benefactions, having been identified with the
Home for Incurables in West Philadelphia. Then the Misses
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Northeast corner Eighteenth and Locust Streets
Roberts became the owners, and finally Mr. Stotesbury
acquired it with the purchase of the main building as noted
above.
Directly east is a residence built in the earlv seventies
on the Harrison property and occupied by a daughter of
Mr. Harrison; later, from about 1878 to 1893, J. W. M.
Cardeza was the tenant; it is known as No. 1723 Locust
Street.
231 AND 233 SOUTH EIGHTEENTH STREET
Southeast corner Eighteenth and Locust Streets
(44' x 150')
— William Florance.
1859 — Charles Lennig.
1894 — George W. Childs Drexel.
David Winebrenner was a cloth merchant whose estab-
lishment in the year 1825 was at No. 100 Chestnut Street
and in the middle forties at 70 North Third Street. About
the year 1835 he built and occupied the house at the south-
east corner of Eighteenth and Locust Streets; the illustra-
tion is a perfect presentation as I remember it during the
fifties, when owned and occupied by William Florance. Mr.
Winebrenner's granddaughter, Mrs. Francis M. Hutchinson,
has a handsome glass chandelier in her residence in West
Philadelphia that came from the old house; it was originally
arranged for candles, and when altered into use for gas there
was much excitement among the neighbors when it became
known that a test was to be made on a certain evening, at
which time all the neighbors flocked to Rittenhouse Square
so as to be removed from the danger of an explosion that the
alarmists prophesied would certainly follow.
Later, Mr. Winebrenner sold this property and it came
into the possession of William Florance. He lived later at
241 South Eighteenth Street.
William Florance had three sons, Theodore, William and
Lucien — Theodore, who occupied several positions; William,
interested in music; and Lucien, an artist. There were also
many daughters. At the marriage of one daughter I was
present as the youngest guest, my mother and Mrs. Florance
being cordially intimate for many years. I recall the evening
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as being in midwinter with the temperature at a low point,
and during the ceremony the gas went out; candles were
hastily supplied, and since a plumber was not available at
that hour my father and others of the guests thawed out the
Photo by Gulekunsi
DAVID WINEBRENNER
1792- 1876
frozen meter and soon restored the equanimity of the
occasion. Mr. Florance was the brother of Jacob L. Flor-
ance, who lived at 1520 Chestnut Street, later the home of
the Reform Club, and now the Baker Building. After Mr.
William Florance's death, Eighteenth and Locust was
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acquired by Charles Lennig, a benefactor to our University
by a bequest to its Chemical Laboratory; he was survived
by his widow, a sister of William R. Lejee; after her death
George W. Childs Drexel, later editor and proprietor of the
Public Ledger, purchased the property, removed it and put
up the present structure, which during the War, through
Photo by Swift
Residence Southeast corner Eighteenth and Locust Streets, East Rittenhouse
Square, prior to the year 1860
Mrs. Drexel's patriotic activity, was used for the assemblage
of societies interested in war work.
Mr. William Florance was a weekly visitor to our house
on the south side, usually selecting the late hour of Saturday
afternoon, when we as children would be studying Harper's
Weekly and Illustrated London News, but the conversation
with our elders was always open to absorption. In 1856 at
the time of the War in the Crimea, the discussions were keen,
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Mr. Florance advocating Russia's position and my father
supporting Great Britain in the political view that she had
taken.
Upon the breaking out of the Civil War, Mr. Florance
removed to New York City, and the intimacy ceased. How-
ever, twenty years later, I met Mr. Florance's great-niece,
whom I courted and married.
Photograph of Mr. Florance will be found on page 277.
Copyright by Moses King
CHARLES LENNIG
1809- 1891
235 SOUTH EIGHTEENTH STREET
(22' x 150')
— Jane B. Edwards.
1857 — Richard C. Dale.
1876 — Ellen G. Sibley.
Richard C. Dale was born in Maryland, his ancestors on
both sides being English. Richard Colgate was a landowner
where the city of Baltimore now stands. Dr. John Dale
and Dr. Richard Colgate Dale were prominent surgeons in
their day, the latter raising and commanding a company
during the War of 1812, at the same time acting as surgeon
and physician to the regiment.
Moving to Philadelphia about the year 1820, the widow
with seven young children lived with the grandfather,
Thomas Fitzgerald, a friend and neighbor of Charles Wilson
Peale.
Mr. Richard C. Dale was an importer of silks and ranked
high in the world of commerce. He was deeply interested
in public enterprises and took an active part in raising sub-
scriptions to the stock of the Pennsylvania Railroad when
that movement was started.
Mrs. Richard C. Dale was the daughter of E. D. Wood-
ruff, a lawyer of great promise, who was a victim of insanitary
conditions prevailing in a neighboring town when attending
court sessions, repeated in more recent times but, let us hope,
now happily overcome. Her grandfather, A. Dickinson
Woodruff, was Attorney-General of New Jersey for 21 years.
He was a graduate of Princeton, delivering the valedictory
and receiving his degree when General Washington and the
members of Congress attended the commencement exercises.
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Richard C. Dale, the younger, was born in Philadelphia,
1853, and received his early training in Dr. Faires' school
where very many of our fellow-citizens of present repute
had their first schooling.
RICHARD C. DALE [the elder]
1810- 1876
{Photograph by Gutekunst, from the painting by Rembrandt Peale)
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1872,
he studied law under the Hon. Robert N. Willson and soon
evidenced that marvelous grasp of the intricacies of practice
that was afterward to distinguish him as one of the fore-
most members of the Bar. Admitted in 1875, in a few years
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he achieved a wide reputation, and, had it not been for his
untimely death in 1904, he would have been elected president
of the Pennsylvania State Bar Association.
MRS. RICHARD C. DALE [the elder]
[Elizabeth Woodruff]
1822- 1910
(Photograph by Gutekunst, from the painting by Rembrandt Peale)
Aside from legal attainments of the highest order, Mr.
Dale, although devoted to his profession, gave much time
and effort to various public movements, among which may
be named one of three commissioners from Pennsylvania to
the National Conference for the Promotion of Uniformitv
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of Legislation in the United States; a trustee of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania; member of the Board of Managers
of the Drexel Institute; one of the advisory counsel to the
Bishop of the Diocese and a vestryman of St. Paul's Church,
Chestnut Hill; member of the executive committee, Adi-
rondack Mountain-Reserve; friend and counsel to the Legal
RICHARD C. DALE
1853- 1904
Protection and Juvenile Court Committees of the New
Century Club and a host of others.
At the meeting of the Bar, Hon. Hampton L. Carson
well expressed Richard C. Dale's character in these words:
He unquestionably filled in our time the place that was filled
by Horace Binney during his active days. I think he was the
purest-minded man I ever knew. No profane word ever stained
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his lips; no impure thought ever soiled his mind. He was a man
of sweetness and dignity, learning without ostentation, neither a
tyrant nor slave of any creed, passion, prejudice or caprice, leading
a simple, beautiful, well-rounded life.
Photo by GuteJcunst
EDWARD A. SIBLEY
1839- 1910
I have an additional interest in the fact that my class-
mate, Gerald Dale, was a first cousin of Richard C. Dale.
Gerald was a brilliant pupil in Dr. Faires' school, leading
his class in every branch of study. He was an enthusiast
in church matters and soon after his graduation engaged
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in missionary work in Syria and became a martyr to the
cause. Mrs. Gerald Dale survived her husband and holds
a very important position on the French-Syrian Commission.
Edward A. Sibley created a new front to this building,
a radical departure from the plain exterior that continues
MRS.
EDWARD A. SIBLEY
1839- 1913
to mark the adjoining homes to the south. Mr. Sibley was
born in Philadelphia, graduated from our high school and
served in the Civil War with our Keystone Battery and later
was of the firm of Felton, Sibley & Company, leading manu-
facturers of paints, varnishes, etc. He was actively engaged
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277
in charitable work, being treasurer of the Children's Seaside
Home at Atlantic City and of St. Christopher's Hospital for
Children of Philadelphia.
He was also accounting warden of the Church of The
Epiphany, which stood at the northwest corner ot Htteenth
and Chestnut Streets.
WILLIAM FLORANCE
(Courtesy of hVi granddaughter, Mrs. Frederick tVathin, of New York}
237-247 SOUTH EIGHTEENTH STREET
(no' x 150')
These houses were owned by the Reverend William Prescod
Hinds, who died in 1859. Of his descendants there is his
grandson, the present Samuel Hinds Thomas, distinguished
member of the Bar, and Miss Mabel L. H. Thomas, who
lives at No. 241.
Ann Thomas became the owner by will dated in 1858.
William Wurts, who lived at 237 South Eighteenth
Street, was born in Flanders, N. J. With his brother
Maurice, he was a factor in the creation of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal and in overcoming the prejudice of the
public against the use of anthracite coal as a fuel. As a
merchant he was successful and retired from active business
at a comparatively early age.
As Philadelphians our particular interest lies in the fact
that in this house the nestor of the Philadelphia Bar, the
man of varied talents and of high personal standing, the
late S. Davis Page, courted the daughter of William
Wurts, who later became Mrs. Page.
S. Davis Page, a noted lawyer, presided at the meeting
of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Governors, held at
the residence of James F. Fahnestock when my paper on
Rittenhouse Square was first read as noted on page vii. Mr.
Page was born in the home of his grandfather, Samuel Davis,
Chestnut Street near Tenth. His father was Dr. William
Byrd Page, a physician, and a professor in the Franklin
Medical College. His mother was Celestine Anna Davis,
a daughter of Samuel Davis, a native of Louisiana. His
education was begun in the Gregory Latin School; he
entered Yale in his fifteenth year, graduating with the Class
of 1859 when eighteen. Mr. Page was commodore of the
Yale navy and trained and stroked the first Yale crew that
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won from Harvard. On his return to this City he studied
law in the office of Peter McCall and was admitted to the
Bar in 1864. He served in City Councils from 1877 to 1879
and in 1882. In 1883 he was appointed City Controller, and
S. DAVIS PAGE
1840- 1921
although his occupancy was of short duration he introduced
fiscal reforms, benefits of which are still apparent. Under
his auspices a simplified system of city bookkeeping was
inaugurated, and he is considered the father of the Depart-
ment of Supplies, having suggested such a system of mun-
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icipal purchasing nearly forty years ago. Mr. Page was
interested in banking, having been president of the Quaker
City National Bank, and was a director of the Merchants
Trust Company. He was for many years senior member of
WILLIAM WURTS
1788- 1858
the law firm of Page, Allison & Penrose, the junior member
being the late Senator Penrose.
Mr. Page was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars,
Sons of the American Revolution and president of the Penn-
sylvania Society of Colonial Governors, as noted above.
He was a member of the Historical Societies of Pennsvl-
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281
vania and Virginia, the American and Pennsylvania Bar
Associations, and the Law Association of Philadelphia.
His clubs were the Rittenhouse, University, Lawyers',
Democratic and Harvard. He was president of the Alumni
MRS. WILLIAM WURTS
[Anna Lentz]
Association of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity of
Philadelphia.
The ancestry of the Wurts family dates back to the
nth century, and one of the ancient homes near Zurich,
Switzerland, erected in 1092, bears the arms of the family
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carved in the oak ceiling. When John Wurts visited it in
1855, the then occupant remarked, "It has stood 763 years
and will stand as much longer." It appears that Johannes
Conrad Wurts was one of the early travelers to America;
MRS. S. DAVIS PAGE
[Isabella Graham Wurts]
1840- 1867
he died in York, Pa., in 1763 and was the grandfather of
William, the subject of this sketch. Johannes joined a party
of Swiss to come to America to better their fortunes. After
many trials and disappointments, they finally landed in
Philadelphia, but that their condition was not ideal may be
gathered from this sentence in a letter written by one of the
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party to a relative in Zurich in which she bewailed the folly
which had led them to forsake the friends and the comforts
of her Swiss home for this land of "wild beasts and bar-
barians."
The portrait of Mrs. William Wurts is noteworthy as
indicating her beauty and attractive costume.
Mrs. S. Davis Page, Isabella Wurts, was the daughter
of William Wurts's second wife, who was Elizabeth Tate.
Mrs. Page is represented as bridesmaid to the daughter of
Charles Macalester about the year i860.
George W. Wurts, the surviving son of William Wurts,
has been secretary of the United States legation in Rome,
as also in St. Petersburg, and is now resident in the former
city. While in Russia Mr. Wurts was also a delegate of our
Government to the Fourth International Prison Congress
in 1890, and to the International Railway Congress in 1892,
both held in the City of St. Petersburg. His wife is the
sister of our fellow-townsman, Hon. Charlemagne Tower.
Mrs. Joseph B. Godwin is a granddaughter of William
Wurts, by his first wife, Anna Lentz, and it is to Mr. and
Mrs. Godwin I am indebted for the privilege of presenting
this group of family portraits.
George A. Wood lived at No. 237. He was a merchant
of high standing, president of the Crane Iron Company,
director of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and of the
Girard National Bank. His daughter became the wife of
Dr. I. Minis Hays, the distinguished secretary of the Amer-
ican Philosophical Society and a citizen with a national
reputation.
237 South Eighteenth Street. Charles Newbold was a
tenant about the year 1856. He was of the firm of Carson
& Newbold, merchants, 136 South Delaware Avenue. Mr.
Newbold had a large circle of friends; notable of them
were John and William Welsh, Hartman Kuhn the elder,
Charles Wharton, and many others. His wife was Rebecca
Pemberton.
The present occupant is James F. Fahnestock, treasurer
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who has trans-
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formed the interior into fascinating suites of rooms in
Colonial design, combined with all modern comforts and
conveniences.
239 South Eighteenth Street. Charles Piatt was born
in Philadelphia in 1829 and was graduated from the Uni-
GEORGE A. WOOD
1816- 1883
versity of Pennsylvania with honor in 1846. As a young
man he traveled extensively in the East and in Europe,
and in i860 was elected secretary of the Insurance Company
of North America, in 1869 its vice-president and in 1878
its president. His administration covered an active and
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growing period in the company's history, it having attained,
in its fire branch, a national reputation and in its marine,
cosmopolitan renown.
241 South Eighteenth Street. John Cooke Longstreth
was a son of Judge Morris Longstreth, was educated at
CHARLES NEWBOLD
1816- 1863
{From an oil painting by an unknown artist)
Georgetown College, studied law in the office of Eli Kirk
Price and was admitted to the Bar in 1849. He was ap-
pointed United States Commissioner by President James
Buchanan.
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He will be remembered for all time as the U. S. Com-
missioner who presided in April, 1859, at the trial of Daniel
Dangerfield, an alleged fugitive slave who had been arrested
in Harrisburg and was brought to Philadelphia, where the
trial was conducted first at the court-room, southwest corner
Fifth and Chestnut Streets, but to secure more space it
was adjourned to the U. S. District Court. Benjamin
CHARLES PLATT
1829- 1909
Harris Brewster, later U. S. Attorney-General, was counsel
for the claimant; he had taken the case as a matter of pro-
fessional duty, since the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 created
the law that should be defended. William S. Peirce, George
H. Earle and Charles Gilpin had been retained by the
Anti-Slavery Society to protect the interests of the fugitive
slave. Peirce afterward became judge of our Court of Com-
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mon Pleas, and I had the privilege of enjoying his friendship
and that of the members of his household for many years.
He would take great delight in discussing various phases of
the Old Testament with which he was very familiar. His
MRS. CHARLES PLATT
1830- 1909
daughters were women of character and intellectual attain-
ments. Years afterward, when Mr. Brewster was called
upon to address the court at the time of the demise of
Judge Peirce, he paid eloquent tribute to his character
and ability.
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Extracts from the Report of the Trial
Anti-slavery men and women thronged the court-room and sat
through weary hours of the day and the night. Before the trial
began, Lucretia Mott approached Commissioner Longstreth (who
was seated at the table writing), ventured forward, and, in an
undertone, expressed to him the earnest hope that his conscience
would not allow him to send this poor man into slavery. He
received it civilly, but replied that he must be bound by his oath
of office. It was half-past twelve at night when the testimony
was concluded. The ladies all kept their seats. Mr. Brewster
commenced summing up with his characteristic ability. He was
followed by Mr. Earle, who took the floor at half-past two in the
morning, and later by Mr. Peirce, who entered the lists at four
o'clock in the morning. It was after five o'clock and day had
begun to dawn when Mr. Brewster made his concluding speech,
which terminated the trial. We had been in session since four
o'clock of the preceding day. The marshal dozed, the commis-
sioner's eyes grew heavy, the witnesses slept, the prisoner could
keep awake no longer, the officers rested their heads on the ends
of their maces, and the doorkeepers slept at their posts. But
Lucretia Mott, Mary Grew, and the twenty or thirty other
women who were in the room sat erect, their interest unflagging,
and their watchfulness enduring to the end.
The commissioner finally decided that as the height of the man
did not agree with the testimony of the claimant, he could not be
given up. Upon his release Dangerfield was taken to an unsus-
pected station of the famous "Underground Railroad" (the
country seat of Morris L. Hallowell, eight miles distant from the
city), and in a few days was safe in Canada. 1
In No. 241 lived David Winebrenner with his grandson,
Alan Armstrong, one of our youthful companions.
Isaac Hinckley was president of the Philadelphia, Wil-
mington & Baltimore Railroad Company, 1 86:5-88, suc-
1 For fuller details of this famous trial consult Life and Letters of James and
Lucretia Mott, by their granddaughter, Anna Davis Hallowell, and Life of
Benjamin Harris Brewster, by Eugene Coleman Savidge, M.D., from both of
which the above extracts have been made by the courteous permission of
authors and publishers.
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ceeding Samuel L. Felton. To quote from a memoir:
"A scholar ot marked ability, a wise and trusted counselor,
widely known and respected as a man of the highest in-
tegrity."
4"
ISAAC HINCKLEY
1815 - 1888
(From un engraving by tin Atlantic Publishing and Engraving Co., N J" 1
The seal of the company is of interest, indicating the
original form of locomotive engine.
In 1858 No. 243 South Eighteenth Street was occupied
by John B. Shober, a graduate of the University of Penn-
sylvania, later entering his father's counting house on Dela-
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ware Avenue, engaged in oil products, with important New
Bedford connections. His leisure was devoted to sports
and athletics and he was always deeply and practically
interested in affairs of the City, State and Nation.
JOHN B. SHOBER
1814- 1864
The portrait of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Field, by Sargent,
is one of the treasures of our Academy of Fine Arts. Mr.
Field was at one time associated with the banking firm of
C. & H. Borie. The Fields had the genius of friendship,
and of those who dwelt under their hospitable roof were
Thackeray, Dickens, Charles Eliot Norton, James Russell
Lowell and John Singer Sargent, the last named having left
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a perpetual memorial of their hospitality in the painting
indicated.
Mrs. Field was the daughter of Richard Peters, Jr.,
one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Academy of the
MR. AND MRS. JOHN W. FIELD
{From the painting by John Singer Sargent, by courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
From a Thistle Print, Copyright Detroit Publishing Co.)
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Fine Arts. Her mother was Abigail Willing, whose por-
trait by Stuart and that of her father by Rembrandt Peale
are also in our Academy by gift and bequest.
James Russell Lowell with his bride had left Boston to
become resident in Philadelphia in the year 1845. They
JAMES W. PAUL
1816- 1897
{From the paintiny by Yonnoli in The Union I. move)
lived in Arch Street, not to return until the "bleak New
England" should be milder. Lowell found employment
on the Pennsylvania Freeman, an abolitionist periodical,
this city being a notable center of anti-slaverv activity years
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293
before Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared. J. Miller McKim was
one of the editors, the man identified with the trial before
J. Cooke Longstreth just referred to.
MRS. JAMES W. PAUL
[Hannah Clement Bunker-Bonne Cceur]
1820- 1891
James W. Paul, born in Philadelphia, was a lawyer of
distinction, in practice 65 years, a record period, at the
Philadelphia Bar. His office was at 220 South Fourth Street,
the home of Peggy Shippen, of Revolutionary fame. He
was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, with high
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honors, in 1834. He married shortly after Hannah Clement
Bunker, Huguenot family Bonne Cceur. Mr. Paul, with
George H. Boker and others, founded the Union Club, later
The Union League, a potent factor in upholding the cause
of the Union during the Civil War. His leisure hours were
spent with such neighbors as Horace Binney, John Sergeant,
William M. Meredith, St. George Tucker Campbell, Judge
Cadwalader, a galaxy of wit and wisdom not to be equaled.
The marriage of Mr. Paul's daughter, Mary, to William
Waldorf Astor, later Baron Astor, will be remembered.
His son, James, Jr., was of Drexel & Company and was
vitally interested in many philanthropic and artistic move-
ments in the City and Nation. To his younger son, Law-
rence, I am indebted for the portrait, a copy of the painting
by Yonnoh, now hanging in The Union League, a gift from
his brother, James, Jr.
Charlemagne Tower and Mrs. Tower lived here from
1890 to 1897, and have always been highly esteemed. Mr.
Tower has received many honors from institutions of learn-
ing both here and abroad. Although a member of the Phil-
adelphia Bar, his interests have been mainly in literature and
diplomacy. He served as envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary, ambassador extra-
ordinary and plenipotentiary to Russia and to Germany,
and on his return to this country was elected president of
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. As an author his
history of the Marquis de La Fayette became a standard
work, authentic as history and charming as literature. We
are justly proud of his citizenship.
This house is at present occupied by Charles C. Har-
rison, Jr.
245 South Eighteenth Street was the home of the Gratz
family, brothers and sisters.
Rev. John Patterson Lundy, D.D., was a distinguished
author of church history. Mrs. Lundy endeared herself to
all good Philadelphians by her advocacy of open-air spaces
for tree planting, and it is to her perservering enthusiasm
that we are indebted for the creation of the City Parks
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295
Association that has been a potent factor in securing many
parks, large and small, throughout the city. It was in this
residence that the meeting for organization took place when
Mrs. Lundy, ably supported by Mrs. Brinton Coxe and a
group of earnest women, formulated plans well developed
Planting trees in front of Independence Hall, Arbor Day, 190 1. Reading from
left to right: Oglesby Paul, 'Mrs. L. F. Benson, Mrs. J. P. Lundy (with arrow)
in the years that followed, so that at the present time we are
in the enjoyment of the realization of what seemed a vision,
but has proven to be a real attainment.
John Teackle Montgomery lived here in the year 1869.
He was the son of the Reverend James Montgomery, D.D.,
who was successively the rector of St. Michael's Church,
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Trenton; Grace Church, New York; and St. Stephen's
Church, Philadelphia. On June 25, 1856, he married Alida
Gouverneur, daughter of Francis Rawle Wharton, of Phila-
delphia.
JOHN TEACKLE MONTGOMERY
1817- 1895
(From a portrait. Courtesy of his nephew. Dr. James A. Montgomery)
Mr. Montgomery attained a notable place at the Bar,
his most famous case being his successful defense of the
Estate of George H. Boker against the claims of the Girard
National Bank on the ground of Mr. Boker's malfeasance
while president of the Bank. Having acquired a com-
petence, Mr. Montgomery early retired from practice. He
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was famous for a brilliant wit and his bons mots are still
repeated in Philadelphia. He was an accomplished Latin
scholar and took part in a notable controversy over the
correct meaning of pollice verso, "thumb turned," in criticism
of Gerome's famous picture, "The Gladiators," criticizing
the painter for representing the thumbs as turned down.
This correspondence appeared in the Philadelphia Librarian
EPHRAIM CLARK
1810- 1885
for 1878-79. Mr. Montgomery was a member of the
Philadelphia Club. His nephew is the present Dr. James
A. Montgomery, a distinguished member of the faculty of
the University of Pennsylvania.
247 South Eighteenth Street, northeast corner of
Eighteenth and Rittenhouse Streets, was occupied as early
as 1855 by Ephraim Clark. There was a commodious side-
yard where cricket was played in the afternoons of school-
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days and all day on holidays, the neighbors' sons taking
sides, Phillips, Whelen, Clark, Thomas, Cohen and others.
Mr. Clark's son is Charles D. Clark, who lives at 2215
Spruce Street and devotes his leisure to important hospital
work and other charitable enterprises. Of his ancestors
MRS. EPHRAIM CLARK
1833- 1885
he notes with interest David Rittenhouse, after whom our
Square is named. The illustration shows "Fort Ritten-
house," northwest corner Seventh and Arch Streets, a
building many of us remember. It was so named because,
pending a dispute as to jurisdiction between Pennsylvania
and the United States, in 1809, it was guarded for three
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299
weeks by State militia to prevent the service of a man-
damus issued by the Federal courts. 1
Mr. Clark is a member of Christ Church vestry.
At present the occupant is Algernon Sydney Logan, a
litterateur of note, whose poems and novels have been pub-
lished. The mother was a Wister and related both by
descent and marriage to Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Keith,
Northwest corner Seventh and Arch Streets — "Fort Rittenhouse'
whom Philadelphians honor for their literary quality and for
their continued interest in the attractive homestead at
321 South Fourth Street, once the home of Dr. Philip
Syng Physick.
At Haverford College a building has been erected by
Mrs. Charles Roberts — a memorial to her husband the late
1 For full particulars of this interesting incident see History of the Ritten-
house Family, by Cassel, 1893, Vol. I, pp. 177-83, at the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania.
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Charles Roberts. Mr. Roberts was my fellow-member on
the original Committee of ioo, organized in the year 1880
to overcome the Gas Trust and other municipal irregulari-
ties. This was accomplished, and Mr. Roberts became
a member of City Council, being the leading exponent of
reform politics. A man of taste, he employed his leisure
in acquiring letters and autographs, of which those of David
Rittenhouse are an interesting feature.
SOUTHEAST CORNER OF EIGHTEENTH AND
RITTENHOUSE STREETS
(63' x 113')
1867 — David Jayne, M.D.
1867 — William P. Tatham.
1 87 1 — John Edgar Thomson.
1906 — Samuel P. Wetherill.
For a long time this was a vacant lot, and the gossip of the
neighborhood was to the effect that theo wner, John Edgar
Copyright by Moacx King
The S. P. Wetherill house
Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, by
bequest had suggested the lot as a suitable spot for the
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erection of a home for orphans of men of the railroad who
had lost their lives in its service.
Visiting Mrs. Thomson when a widow in the interest of
some charitable organization, I ventured to call her atten-
tion to the importance of the erection of homes for orphans
in a rural district where plenty of air and ground could be
obtained, and where the successful operation of an institu-
tion as contemplated could be assured. There is no cer-
tainty that the comment had any influence, but later the
estate disposed of the lot and Mr. Samuel Price Wetherill
has erected a beautiful dwelling thereon, an ornament to
the neighborhood. In 1867 the lot belonged to Dr. David
Jayne, who afterward built the marble mansion at the
southeast corner of Nineteenth and Chestnut Streets,
lately removed; then to William P. Tatham, a noted manu-
facturer of lead products.
Copyright by Afoxtx King
JOHN EDGAR THOMSON
1808- 1874
President Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
NORTHEAST CORNER OF EIGHTEENTH AND SPRUCE
STREETS
(90' x 105')
1857 — William R, Hanson.
1858 — John Edgar Thomson.
1912 — Emily B. McFadden, wife of George H. McFadden.
In 1857 this belonged to William R. Hanson, to whom
reference has been made. He conveyed it to John Edgar
Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
a man of fine physique, reserved in manner, but vigorous
in action when occasion required. The house, as I remember
Residence of George H. McFadden, northeast corner Eighteenth and Spruce
(Courtesy of George A . Wolf)
it, was largely of wood construction on the exterior; imme-
diately to the east, facing Spruce Street on its north side,
were the greenhouses of Peter Mackenzie, a noted florist;
this was in 1856.
In 1912, following Mrs. Thomson's death, the property
was purchased by George H. McFadden, who made exten-
sive improvements, resulting in an attractive mansion.
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APPENDIX I
As an evidence of patriotic citizenship, the subjoined
list of members of the Edwards family will be of interest.
*George W. Edwards.
Sons:
*Dr. Joseph F. Edwards, Major 2d Infty., N. G. P.
*Colonel Richard S. Edwards, 1st City Troop;
Commissary Gen'l, N. G. P.
"Thomas A. Edwards, 1st City Troop; Co. D, 1st Reg't,
N. G. P.
Grandchildren:
Robert Ewing Edwards, Penna. Naval Reserve;
U. S. A. Revenue Service.
Jonathan Patterson Edwards, Co. D, 1st Reg't,
N. G. P.
George W. Edwards, Co. D, 1st Reg't, N. G. P;
U. S. V., Battery A., Spanish American War.
Joseph F. Edwards, Lieut. U. S. N., World War.
W. Atlee Edwards, Lt. Commander U. S. N.; Staff
Admiral Sims; English D. S. C; Medal of Honor, U. S. A.
Baldwin Edwards, Lieut. U. S. A. (A. E. F.).
Richard S. Edwards, Commander U. S. Navy.
Brooke Edwards, Lieut. Aviation Corps; Croix de
Guerre, A. E. F.
Mitchell Edwards, Lieut. Aviation Corps (A. E. ¥.).
Wilfred B. Fetterman, Major Medical Corps, U. S. A.
(Croix de Guerre); 1st Reg't., N. G. P.; U. S. V., Spanish
American War.
George Edwards Fetterman, Lieut., U. S. A. (A. E. F.) ;
1st Reg't., N. G. P.; U. S. V., Spanish American War.
Neilson Edwards, Troop A, N. G. P.
Gordon Edwards Fetterman, Troop A, N. G. P.
Great-Grandchildren :
A. H. Davisson, Jr., Mexican Border, 1916-17; Lieu-
tenant 28th Division, U. S. A. (A. E. F.).
Elizabeth Edwards Davisson, U. S. N. R. F.
George Edwards Davisson, Troop A (N. G. P.).
John Edwards Davisson, Troop A, N. G. P.
* Deceased
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APPENDIX II
At the conclusion of Mr. Cohen's address before the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the President, Hon.
Hampton L. Carson, in closing the meeting, referred to the
"Fort Rittenhouse" incident, and a summary of his remarks
is appended:
The old house at the northwest corner of Seventh and
Arch Streets, long known as "Fort Rittenhouse," has an
interesting connection with a Revolutionary tale. In Sep-
tember, 1778, Gideon Olmsted, a young fisherman of Con-
necticut, accustomed to the waters of Long Island Sound,
was blown out to sea, with two companions, and captured
by the British ship "Active." Against their protests they
were treated as prisoners of war and carried to Jamaica.
There the sloop was fitted with arms and ammunition for
the British army in the City of New York, and the American
lads, against their wills, were forced to assist in the naviga-
tion of the sloop on her return voyage. One calm night, the
Americans fastened down the hatches upon the captain and
the greater part of his men, confining them to a cabin below
the deck, and overpowering the watch on the lookout and the
man at the wheel. Olmsted, taking the tiller, headed for
Little Egg Harbor, N. J. In the morning the captain
attempted to force the hatch. A lively battle ensued, the
captain sweeping the deck with pistol fire and wounding
Olmsted, but he was beaten back by belaying pins, and the
hatch clamped down by rolling a full water-butt upon it.
The supply of food and water to the prisoners below was
cut off so as to bring them to terms. The ship's carpenter
cut a hole through the stern and wedged the rudder so that
the sloop would run out to sea, in the hope of falling in with
a British squadron. Olmsted furled his sails and awaited
the slow effect of starvation and thirst upon the crew. In
this situation, the Pennsylvania brig "Houston," com-
manded by Captain Josiah Harmer, cruising in concert with
the French corvette, the "Gerard," came up, and, against
the protests of Olmsted and his companions, insisted on
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recapturing them and carrying them into the Delaware and
up to Philadelphia. Here a contest took place over the
distribution of prize money resulting from a sale of the sloop
and cargo. The trial was had before Judge George Ross, the
Pennsylvania Admiralty judge, and a jury, the money being
divided into thirds — one-third to Olmsted, one-third to
the brig, and one-third to the corvette. Olmsted, stung by
the injustice, appealed to the Continental Congress and
secured a bond from Benedict Arnold, then the military
commander of Philadelphia. The Congressional Committee
on Prizes and Captures reversed the State Court, but could
not enforce its rulings. The moneys reached the hands of
David Rittenhouse, the Treasurer of the State of Pennsyl-
vania. Years followed, but not until after the adoption of
the Constitution of the United States and the establishment
of the District Courts of the United States as successors to
the Admiralty jurisdiction of the Continental Congress was
the matter settled. Olmsted brought proceedings before
Judge Peters who awarded the whole fund to him. Penn-
sylvania resisted. The judge was timid about embroiling
the Nation and the State, but was commanded by John
Marshall, as Chief Justice, upon a writ of mandamus, to
enforce his decree. This Peters did, but as Rittenhouse
had died, and the fund, which was in the shape of certificates,
was in the hands of his daughters, Mrs. Sergeant and Mrs.
Waters, residing in "Fort Rittenhouse," the ladies were
made defendants. When the United States marshal went
to the house, he found that Governor Snyder had surrounded
the house with State militia, commanded by General Michael
Bright. The marshal withdrew, but summoned a posse
comitatus of citizens to meet at the end of two weeks and
aid him in service of the writ from Judge Peters. To avoid
an open clash, the marshal resorted to strategy, and, dis-
guising himself as a farmer selling poultry and eggs, obtained
admission to the house and made the ladies his prisoners.
They applied for a discharge on a writ of habeas corpus before
Chief Justice Tilghman of Pennsylvania. He refused to
interfere with the order of John Marshall and re-ordered the
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ladies into custody. Governor Snyder summoned a special
meeting of the Legislature, which made an appropriation of
the money to Olmsted, who thus finally secured his prize
rights, and the ladies were released. General Bright was
tried with his soldiers before Judge Bushrod Washington in
the United States Court, for forcibly resisting the enforce-
ment of Federal law. He was convicted and sentenced, but
because he had acted under the mistaken orders of the
Governor, he was pardoned by President Madison, and the
controversy which had lasted from 1778 to 1806 was finally
closed.
It was because of the siege of the Rittenhouse mansion
that it was long known as " Fort Rittenhouse."
INDEX
Academy of Music, 25, 48, 204, 207
Academy of Natural Sciences, 166
Academy of Notre Dame, 159
Acme Tea Co., 81
Acorn Club, 170
Adams Express Company, 55
Adams, Robert, Jr., 32
Adirondack Mountain Reserve, 274
Advent, Church of the, 175, 176
Africa, 203
Agassiz, Professor, 31
Agnew, Dr. D. Hayes, 52, 114
Agnew, Mrs. Erwin, 114, 115, 116
Agnew, Mary Irwin, 111, 114
Ahrend, 143
Albany, N. Y., 67
Alexander Presbyterian Church, 1 1 1
Alexandria, Va., 173
Algeria, 110
Allen's Map, 8
Alliance Frangaise, 170
Allibone's Dictionary of Authors, 162
Allibone, Thomas, 174
Allied Realty Company, Inc., 91, 93
America, 67, 82, 169, 203, 241, 251,
259
American Bar Association, 281
American Dredging Company, 77
American Philosophical Society, 5,
263, 283
American Pulley Company, 18
American Sunday School Union, 189,
190, 199, 200
Annapolis, Naval Academy, 38
Ann Street, 98, 128
Antarctic Continent, 73
Anthony, Captain, 21
Antiquary, 249, 250
Anti-Slavery Society, 286
Apprentices' Library, 243
Arch Street, 22, 39, 117, 135, 193,
292, 298, 299
Archaological Museum (U. of Pa.),
148, 188
Arminian, 175
Armstrong, Alan, 288
Army and Navy, 86
Arnett, Harriet, 52
Arnett, William W., 52
Arrott, Mr. and Mrs. "William, 2 1
Art Alliance, Philadelphia, 8, 193,
196, 197, 202
Art Club, 223
Art Jury, 138
Ashbridge, Mrs., 176
Ashhurst, John, 73
Ashmead, Captain, 117
Ashmead, Eliza, 1 1 7
Ashmead, Lewis, 48
Ashton, Dr. and Mrs., 37, 39
Asia, 203
Astor, Baron William Waldorf, 294
Athenaeum, The, 138
Athletic Association of the University
of Pennsylvania, 56
Atlantic Refining Company, 123
Atwood, White & Co., 77
Audenried, Judge Charles Y., 201
Audenried, John T., 197, 201
Audenried, Emma (Mrs. John T.),
197, 202
Austria-Hungary, 294
Babylonia, 227
Bache, Professor Alexander Dallas,
165
Bache, Deborah, 155
Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co., 194
Baker, Miss, 38
Baker Building, 268
Baker, William S., 38
Baldwin Locomotive Works, 39, 163
Ballymena, Ireland, 200
Baltimore, 109, 199, 200, 260, 271
Bank of North America, 63, 247
Banks, Clayton French, 194
Baptist Church, 67
Bar Association, Pennsylvania State,
273, 281
Barklie, Archibald, 160
Barney, Charles D., & Co., 44
Barton, Dr. John Rhea, 109
Bates, Miss Florence, 192
Battle Hymn of the Republic, 8
Baxter, Sylvester, 73
Beauties and Celebrites of the Na-
tion, 42
Belfast, 15
Belgravia, 123
Bell, Walter D wight, 138
(309)
3io
Index
Bellevue-Stratford, Old, 247
Benoist, Miss, 229
Benson, Mrs. L. P., 295
Bent, Rev. Rufus H., 196
Beth Eden Baptist Church, 123
Biddle, Col. Chapman, 157
Biddle, Hon. Craig, 222
Biddle, James S., 176
Biddle, Nicholas, 200
Binney, Horace, 184, 207, 226, 257,
274, 294
Bird's Eye View of Rittenhouse
Square, ii
Blanchard, Miss Anna, 176
Blockley, 32
Blois, 203
Blood's Dispatch, 10
Blue Reserves Home Guard, 86
Board of Education, 76, 79
Board of Trade, The Philadelphia, 194
Bob-tail Cars, 120
Bodine, Samuel T., 149
Bohlen, John, 174, 175, 176
Bok, Edward W., 204
Boker, George H., 294, 296
Bolingbroke, 197
Bond, L. Montgomery, 111, 174
Borie, C. and H., 290
Boston, 67, 69, 73, 173, 174, 175, 215,
265, 292
Boston Row, 134
Boston Symphony, 155
Boulton, William G., 52
Bourse, The, 218
Bowen, Ezra, 50, 52, 54
Bowen, William E., 50
Brewster, Hon. Benjamin Harris, 286,
287, 288
Brickmaker's Church, 1 74
Brinton, Mrs. Jasper Y., 192
Brighton, England, 217
British Army, 76
British Consul, 247
British Museum, 117
Broad Street, 8, 48, 84, 117, 123, 163,
227, 247, 249
Brock, Mrs. Alice Gibson, 146
Brock, Col. Robert Coleman Hall,
147, 148
Brooks, Rev. Phillips, 30, 172, 173, 175
Brown, Alexander, 53, 176, 189, 190
Brown Brothers & Co., 50, 53, 129
Brown, David S., 35
Brown, George, 53
Brown, James, 53
Brown, John A., 53, 197, 199, 200
Brown, John A., Jr., 143, 145, 189
Brown, Mrs. John A., Jr., 145
Brown, John H., 63, 64
Brown, Martha M., 150
Brown & Reed, 151
Brown, Sir William, 53
Browns & Bowen, 50, 52
Buchanan, Rev. Edward Y., 170
Buchanan, President James, 170, 285
Buckman, Mrs. Emily, 155
Bucknell, 50, 52
Bucks County, 1 1 1
Bulletin, Philadelphia Evening, 76, 120
Bulwer's Novels, 162
Bunker (Bonne-Coeur), Hannah
Clement, 293, 294
Butler, Mrs. Pierce, 25
Buttonwood Street, 173, 175
Cadet Corps, 48
Cadiz, Spain, 233
Cadwalader, John, 221
Cadwalader, Hon. John, 221
Cadwalader, Judge, 294
Cairo, Egypt, 73
Caldwell, Annie, 131
Caldwell, Elizabeth, 131
Caldwell, Francis G., 131
California, 36
Callowhill Street, 100
Calvinistic, 175
Camden & Amboy R. R. Co., 77
Cameron, Hon. J. Donald, 213
Cameron, Hon. Simon, 211
Cameron, Virginia R. (Mrs. Wayne
MacVeagh), 211
Campbell, St. George Tucker, 294
Canada, 288
Candelet, Al'en, 16
Canton, China, 138
Cardeza, J. W. M., 266
Carey, Henry C, 198
Carlisle, England, 91
Carpenter Street, 217
Carpenter, William, 67
Carson, Hon. Hampton L., 120, 274,
305
Carson & Newbold, 283
Carver, Alexander Burton, 233, 234
Carver, A. B., & Co., 233
Carver, Samuel, 233
Carthagena, 247
Cassatt, Alexander J., 165, 168, 170
Cassatt, Mrs. Alexander J., 169, 170
Centennial Exhibition of 1876, 27, 41,
154, 247
Century Magazine, 133
Chambers' Encyclopedia, 161
Index
3 11
Chambersburg, Penna., 237
Chancellor Street, 258, 263
Charleston, S. C, 82
Charleston, S. C, Mining and Manu-
facturing Company, 60, 194
Chester County, 151
Chestnut Hill, 274
Chestnut Street, 10, 16, 36, 50, 52,
76, 83, 84, 110, 111, 119, 120, 125,
134, 135, 151, 174, 177, 178, 180,
182, 193, 199, 200, 221, 263, 267,
268, 277, 278, 286, 302
Chestnut & Walnut Line, 119
Chew, Benjamin, 5
Chew, Major David S. B., 150
Chew, Mary J. B., 150
Children's Aid Society, 20
Children's Sea-Side Home, Atlantic
City, 277
Childs, George W., 103
Childs-Drexel Home, 103
China, 215, 233
Christ Church, 135, 299
Christiana, 76
Church Alley, 243
Church of the Atonement, 37
Church House, Diocese of Pennsyl-
vania, 170
Cilley, Judge, 112
Cincinnati, Ohio, 229
Cincinnati, Society of the, 22
Citizens' Passenger Railway Co., 211
City Parks Association, 294
City Troop, First, 32, 113, 166
Civil War, 7, 16, 17, 23, 31, 40, 44,
48, 63, 69, 86, 97, 99, 111, 162,
166, 172, 209, 211, 255, 270, 276,
294
Claghorn, James L., 207
Clark, Charles D., 298, 299
Clark, Ephraim, 297
Clark, Mrs. Ephraim, 298
Clarke, Dr. H., 110
Clinton Square, 84
Clinton Street, 189
Cochran, William G., 210, 211
Coffin, Lemuel, 174, 175, 176, 177
Cohen, Charles J., vii, 84, 173, 298
Cohen, Mrs. Charles J., 173
Cohen, Henry, v, 82, 83, 86
Cohen, Mrs. Henry, v, 83, 85, 155
Cohen, Joseph, 82
Cohen, Solomon, 83
Colgate, Richard, 271
Collins, Alfred M., 126, 127
Collins, Mrs. Alfred M., 128
Collins, Henry H. (Harry), 127
Colonial, 22
Colonial Dames of America, 156
Colonial Society, 27
Colorado Springs, 103
Columbia, Pa., 97
Columbia Canal Basin, 151
Comfort, Aaron, 131
Commercial National Bank, 255
Committee of 100, 201, 300
Committee of Safety, 5
Commonwealth Artillery, 3 1
Comptroller of the Currency, 257
Concord, Mass., 237
Confederate, 73, 87, 172
Congress of the U. S., 11, 79, 226, 257,
271
Conner, Edward, 183
Constable, Archibald, 198
Constable, John, 191
Constitutional Convention of 1874,
76
Continental Congress, 22, 77
Continental Currency, 39
Continental Hotel, 1 1 1
Continental Powder Mill, 5
Controller of the City of Philadelphia,
279
Converse, John H., 163
Converse, John W., 163
Cooke, Jay, 44
Cooke, Jay, & Co., 138
Cooper, Rev. Charles, 30
Copeland China, 84
Corinthian Yacht Club, 80
Corwin, Thomas, 197
Councils of the City of Philadelphia,
4, 16, 76, 77, 79, 226, 279, 300
County Fire Insurance Co., 204
Court of Common Pleas, 35, 99, 201,
286
Coxe, Mrs. Brinton, 295
Coxe, Tench C, 135
Crabbe, Bill, 16
Craige, Seth, 162
Crane Iron Co., 283
Crawford's School, 22
Crawshay, 260
Cresson Springs, 153
Cresson, Wm. P., 174, 175, 176
Crimea, War in the, 76, 131, 132, 261,
269
Croskey, George Duncan, 117
Croskey, Henry, 117, 118, 122, 127,
128
Croskey, Mrs. Henry, 119
Croskey, Dr. John Welsh, 123
Croskey, Miss, 117
312
Index
Cross, Michael, 110, 176
Crousillat House, 144
Crousillat, Louis Marshall Jacques,
143
Crousillat, Miss Margaret, 143
Cruelty, Society for the Prevention
of, to Animals, 162
Crusoe, Robinson, 117
Cushing, Joseph, 199
Custom House, U. S., 180
Curtin, Governor Andrew G., 86
Cuyler, Theodore, 67, 74, 75, 76, 77,
222
Cuyler, Mrs. Theodore, 75
Cuyler, Thomas De Witt, 77, 222
Cyfarthfa Castle, 260
Czar of Russia, 259
Dale, Gerald, 275
Dale, Mrs. Gerald, 276
Dale, Dr. John, 271
Dale, Dr. Richard Colgate, 271
Dale, Richard C, the Elder, 271, 272
Dale, Mrs. Richard C, the Elder,
271, 273
Dale, Richard C, 50, 272, 273, 274,
275
Dallas, Judge George M., 148
Dallett, John, & Co., 52
Dallett, Miss, 129
Dallin, Cyrus E., 8
Dalzell Oil Co., 94
Dangerfield, Daniel, 286, 288
Darby, 121
Darley, Francis T. Sully, 176
Darmstadt, University of, 168
Darwinian Theory, 32
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, 156
Davis, Celestine Anna, 278
Davis, Mrs. Edward P., 157
Davis, Jefferson, 131
Davis, Samuel, 278
Davis, Sussex D., 35
Davis, Mrs. Sussex D., 35, 36
Deaf and Dumb, Pennsylvania Insti-
tution for the, 138
Dean Street (now Camac Street), 28
Declaration of Independence, 77, 91
Dedication, v
Delafield, 131, 132
De Lancey Place, 196
Delaware, 5, 32, 117, 231
Delaware and Hudson Canal, 278
Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity of
Philadelphia, 281
Delta Psi Fraternity, 56
Democratic Club, 281
Dennis, Sarah, 39
Devon, 248
Dickens, Charles, 290
Dickinson College, 237
Dictionary of Biography and Mythol-
ogy, 161
DTnvilliers, Miss, 208
Diocese of Pennsylvania, 18, 170
Divine, Mattie, 15
Divine, William, 13, 15, 16
Divine, Mrs. William, 16
Divine, William, Jr., 12, 14, 16
Divine, William Elliott, 12
Divine, William Stafford, 12
Dobbins, Edward T., 25, 26, 27
Dobbins, Miss, 26
Dobbins, Richard J., 26
Dock Street, 10, 251
Dodson, Richard W., 217, 218
Dodson, Mrs. Richard W., 217, 219
Dodson, Miss Sarah Paxton Ball, 217,
220
Dolan, Sarah Brooke, 229
Dolan, Thomas, 229, 231
Dover, N. H., 35
Drexel, Anthony J., 40, 100, 101, 102,
103, 104
Drexel, Col. Anthony J., Jr., 243
Drexel & Co., 100, 213, 294
Drexel, Francis A., 79, 100, 101, 102
Drexel, Francis M., 100, 101, 106
Drexel, George W. Childs, 267, 269
Drexel, Mrs. George W. Childs, 269
Drexel Institute, 103, 106, 203, 274
Drexel, Louise B., 67, 77, 79
Drexel, Mrs. Margarita A., 243
Drug Exchange, Philadelphia, 194
Duane, William, 155
Duane, William J., 155
Duluth, 44
Dunnohue, Ann, 117
Durant, Frederick C, 138, 139
Durant, Mrs. Frederick C, 138, 139
Earle, George H., 286, 288
Earle, George H., Jr., 81
Eastern State Penitentiary, 11, 32
Easton, Alexander, 121, 122
Eastwick & Harrison, 258
Eckendorf, Major, 48
Edict of Nantes, 39
Edinburgh, 198, 263
Edwards, George W., 159, 247, 248
Edwards, George W., Family, 304
Edwards, George W., the younger
110
Index
3i3
Edwards, Jane B., 271
Edwards, John H., 247
Egyptologist, 24
Eighth Street, 129
Eighth Ward Settlement House, 19
Eighteenth Street, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15,
18, 48, 93, 117, 120, 123, 127, 171,
186, 226, 241, 242, 245, 246, 255,
258, 261, 263, 265, 266, 267, 269,
271, 278, 283, 284, 285, 289, 294,
297, 301, 303
Eisenbrey, Mrs., 266
Eleventh Street, 151
Ellet, Mrs., 42
Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, 255
Ellison, John B., & Sons, 129
Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, 170,
185, 186, 263
England, 16, 22, 39, 131, 251
Engles, Charlotte S., 109
English Ancestry, 117
Epiphany, Church of the, 277
Episcopal Academy, 189, 234
Episcopal Church, 180
Episcopal Hospital, 18
Erie, Pa., 5
Erie Railroad, 16
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
the U. S., 57
Europe, 50, 83, 91, 132, 203, 284
Evans, Manlius G., 151, 153
Evans, Mrs. Manlius G., 151
Fahnestoclc, James F., vii, 278, 283
Fairchild, C. B., 122
Faires, Dr. John W., 28, 180, 272, 275
Fairman, Gideon, 165
Fairmount Park, 6, 8, 27, 76, 107, 111,
243
Fairmount Park Art Association, viii,
73, 103, 105, 144, 204
Fairmount Park Commission, 77
Fallon, John, 158, 159
Falls of the Schuylkill, 21
Farmers & Mechanics National Bank,
91, 138, 162
Fair, John, 251
Federal Government, 23
Fell, Sarah Drexel, 241
Felton, Samuel L., 289
Felton, Sibley & Co., 276
Fetterman, George Edwards, 248
Fidelity Trust Co., 112
Field, Mr. and Mrs. John W., 290, 291
Field, Catharine, 138
Field, Mrs. Charles, 138
Field, Thomas Y., 138
Fiero, Erwin Agnew, 1 16
Fifteenth Street, 263, 277
Fifth Street, 93, 118, 120, 175, 180,
193, 218, 219, 286
Filbert Street, 1 1 7
Fillmore, President Millard, 16
Finance Co. of Pa., 231
Fink, Julius, 131
Fish House Club (State in Schuyl-
kill), 29
Fisher, Samuel F., 206, 207
Fitler, Alfred, 193
Fitler, Edwin H., 193, 203
Fitzgerald, Thomas, 271
Flanders, N. J., 278
Fleming, Mrs. Mattie J., 15
Fling, William B., 135
Florance, Jacob L., 268
Florance, Lucien, 267
Florance, Theodore, 267
Florance, William, 267, 268, 269, 270,
277
Florance, Mrs. William, 267
Florance, William, the Younger, 267
Florence, Italy, 157
Flower Market, 7, 8
Floyd, William, 77
Foch, Marshal, 187
Foreword, vii
Forney, Mrs. John W., 155
Forrest, Edwin, Home, 204
"Fort Rittenhouse," 298, 299, 305
Fort Sumter, 175
Founders and Patriots of America,
111
Fourth International Prison Con-
gress, 283
Fourth Street, 16, 22, 39, 50, 83, 84,
160, 199, 293
Fox, Dr. Charles W., 63, 65
Fox, Mrs. Charles W., 63
Fox, George S., 202
Fox Hunt, 80
France, 131, 187, 261
Franciscus, George C, 151, 153, 154
Frankford, 120
Franklin, Benjamin, 5, 88, 155, 157,
197
Franklin County, 96
Franklin Fire Insurance Co., 205
Franklin Institute, 149, 217, 255
Franklin and Marshall College, 97
Franklin Medical College, 278
Franklin Sugar Refining Co., 18
Frazier, Benjamin West, 17
Frazier, Isabella Zimmerman, 17
Frazier, William W., 13, 17, 18
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Index
Frazier, Mrs. William W., 19, 20
Free Library of Philadelphia, vif, 73,
208
Free nasons of Pennsylvania, 1 1
French, Clayton, 193, 194
French, Harry B., 193
French, Howard B., 193
French Republic, 187
French, Richards & Co., 193
French, Samuel H., & Co., 193
French Society of Geography, 203
French-Syrian Commission, 276
French War Relief Committee, 185,
186, 187
French, William H., 10
Friends' Ground, 39
Frishmuth, Edmund H., Jr., 127, 129
Frishmuth, John C. W., 129
Front Street, 120, 217
Fugitive Slave Act, 286
Furness, Dr. Horace Howard, 25, 26,
165, 166, 167
Gainsborough, 191
Galli, Count, 248, 249, 252
Galli, Countess, 248, 249, 253
Garfield, President, 211
Gas Trust, 300
Gaul & Lewis, 229, 233
Gaul, William, 228, 229, 233
Gazetteer of the World, 161
Geographical Bulletin, 4
George's Hill, 107
George, Rebecca, 107
Georgia, 25
Georgetown College, 285
German Hospital, 106
Germantown, 117, 208
German town Cricket Club, 81
Germany, 294
Gerome, 297
Gettysburg, 86, 95, 123, 172
Giant's Causeway, 15
Gibbs, Frances A., 243
Gibbs, William W., 243, 244
Gibbons, Charles, 94, 95, 143, 144
Gibbons, Mrs. Charles, 95
Gibson, Miss Alice, 146, 148
Gibson, Charles M., 160
Gibson, Henry C, 146, 148
Gillespie, Mrs. E. D., 154, 155, 156,
157
Gilmore, Alfred, 141
Gilmore, Louisa L., 141
Gilpin, Charles, 286
Girard College, 11, 16
Girard National Bank, 283, 296
Girard, Stephen, II, 155
Gloucester Manufacturing Co., 203
Goat, the Bronze Statue, 125
Godey's Lady's Book, 68, 74
Godwin, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B., 283
Golden Gate, 41
Goodrich, Samuel G., 61, 88, 89
Goodwin, Mrs. 164
Gould, J. Edward, 110
Gould, lay, 98
Gould & Fischer, 110
Gouverneur, Alida, 296
Grace Church, New York, 296
Gratz, Anderson, 133
Gratz, Miss Elizabeth, 155
Gratz Family, 83, 294
Gratz, Rebecca, 131, 133, 134
Gray Reserves, 217, 221
Great Britain, 160, 261, 270
Great Exhibition of 1851, 16
Green Street, 1 1 7
Gregory Latin School, 278
Grew, Mary, 288
Griffiths, Mary H., 25
Grigg, El'iot & Co., 160
Grigg, John, 174, 197, 198, 199, 211
Grigg, Mrs. John, 199
Groesbeck, R. Benoist, 229, 230
Groesbeck, Rosine E., 229, 230
Groesbeck, William G., 229
Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit
Co., 194, 204
Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, 194
Guardians of the Poor, Board of, 226
Hacker, Charles, 55, 60, 61, 62
Hacker, Mrs. Morris, 61
Hacker, Sarah Earle, 55
Hague Tribunal, 211
Hahnemann Medical College, 235
Hale, Charles, 73
Hale, Rev. Edward Everett, 68
Hale, Frances, 75
Hale, Horatio, 72
Hale, John M., 174
Hale, Miss Lucretia, 73
Hale, Miss Sarah Josepha, 68, 71, 72
Hale, Mrs. Sarah Josepha, 67, 69, 70,
71, 72, 74
Hallowell, Anna Davis, 288
Hallowell, Morris L., 288
Hampton Institute, 18
Handel, 137
Hanover, 203
Hanson, Hannah A., 35
Hanson, William Rotch, 34, 35, 303
Harding, Dorothy Barney, 40
Index
3i5
Harding, James Horace, 40, 44, 45
Hare, Hon. John I. Clark, 35
Hare, Mary Fleeming, 36
Hare, Dr. Robert, 35
Hare, Robert H., 35
Harper, James, 196, 203, 217, 225,
226, 233, 241
Harper's Weekly, 269
Harrisburg, 286
Harrison, Charles Custis, LL.D., 19
Harrison, Charles C, Jr., 294
Harrison Day Nursery, 20
Harrison, Frazier & Co., 18
Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. George L.,
19, 175
Harrison, Joseph, Jr., 139, 258, 259,
260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 266
Harrison, Mrs. Joseph, Jr., 262
Harrison, Havemeyer & Co., 18
Harrison, William H., 265
Hart, Reginald L., 55, 59
Hart, Harry R., 57, 60
Hart, Thomas, 55, 57
Hart, Thomas, the Younger, 55
Hart, Mrs. Thomas, 58
Hartford, the U. S. S., 49
Harvard, 63, 72, 166, 175, 279
Harvard Club, 281
Harvey, Alexander E., 140, 141
Harvey, Caroline, 150
Harvey, Tosiah L., 150
Harvey, Rachel L., 138, 141, 142
Harvey, R. Wistar, 141
Haseltine, Frank, 195, 196
Haseltine, Ward B., 196
Haseltine, Mrs. Ward B., 196
Haverford, 81
Haverford College, 151, 299
Hays, Dr. Isaac, 262, 263
Hays, Dr. I. Minis, 263, 283
Hazleton, Pa., 237
Helmuth, John K., 35
Henry, Joseph, 87
Henszey, William P., 37, 39
Hertz, Henry, 76
Hewlings Family, 58
High Street, 9, 243
Hillegas, Michael, 21
Hinckley, Isaac, 288, 289
Hinds, Rev. William Prescod, 278
Historic Families of America, 100
Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
vii, 38, 93, 134, 138, 217, 225, 228,
234, 280, 294, 299
Historical Society of Virginia, 28 1
Hlasko, M., 48
Hoffman, Matilda, 131
Holland, 111
Holy Trinity Church, 18, 20, 109,
111, 171, 173, 174, 177, 233, 265
Holy Trinity Memorial Chapel, 243
Home Guards, 23
Home for Incurables, 266
Home of the Merciful Saviour for
Crippled Children, 123
Hood, Thomas, 40
Hopkins, Mary J., 110
Hopkins, Dr. Samuel, 109
Hopkins, Dr. William Barton, 108,
109
Hopkinson, Oliver, 159
Horner, Susan, 157
Horstmann, Emma L., 177
Horstmann, Sigmund, 164
Horstmann, Walter, 177
Horstmann, Mrs. William J., 177
Horticultural Society, 234
Hospital for Wounded Soldiers of the
Civil War, 155
Howell, Francis Carpenter, 69
Howell, John, 67
Howell, Zophar C, 63, 66, 67, 91
Howell, Mrs. Zophar C, 68
Huff, George F., 40
Huguenot, 39, 294
Hunchback, The, 25
Hunter, Doctor, 177
Hunter, Edmund A. W., 177
Hunter, Mrs. Frances Hale, 75
Hunter, Miss Mary Stockton, 70
Hunter, Richard Stockton, 75
Hunter, Miss Sarah, 70
Hunter, Thomas P , 67, 80, 81
Hutchinson, Mrs. Francis M., 267
Illinois, 247
Illustrated London News, 269
Independence Hall, 95, 295
Indiana, 247
Indian Medicine Man, 8
Ingersoll, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Edward, 215
Ingersoll, Hon. Joseph R., 226
Insurance Company of North Amer-
ica, 284
International Railway Congress, 283
Iowa, 247
Ireland, 14, 81, 200
Irving, Washington, 131, 133, 165
Italy, 211
Ivanhoe, 133
Ivers, Alene, 213
3i6
Index
Jackson, President Andrew, 155
Jacques, Maria, 39
Jaggar, Rev. Thomas A., 175
Jamaica, 180
Janney, Deborah Tower, 67
Janney, Robert Miller, 81
Jastrow, Dr. Morris, 26
Jayne, Dr. David, 301, 302
Jefferson Hospital, 108, 156
Jefferson Medical College, 162, 237
Jessup, Alfred D., 233
Jews of Philadelphia, 133
Johnson, John G., 80
Johnston & Tingley, 233
Johnston, Governor William F., 16
Jones, John D., 180
Judge, 57
Julia, 25
Juliet, 25
Justice, Mrs. Huldah, 155
Keim, Mrs. George De B., 41, 44
Keith, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P., 299
Keith's Theatre, 151
Kelsey, Albert, 244, 246
Kemble, Charles, 25
Kemble, Frances Anne, 25, 26
Kennedy, 93, 134, 225, 228
Kensington, 120
Kentucky, 197
Keystone Battery, 276
Kinder, 176
King Phillip's War, 67
Kirtley, Mr., 50
Knowles, Sheridan, 25
Koecker, Dr., 48
Koecker, Lewis, 48
Kortright, Sir Charles Edward Keith,
247, 250
Kortright, Lady, 247, 248, 251
Krumbhaar, Louis, 129
Kuhn, Hartman, 151, 283
Ladd, Mrs., 8
Ladies' Magazine, 67, 74
Lady from Philadelphia, 73
Laessle, Albert, 125
Lafayette, General, 226, 294
Lake Geneva, 241
Lancaster County, 76
Lancaster, Pa., 151
Landreth Family, 60
Landreth, Lucius S., 55
Land Title and Trust Co., 84
Lankenau, Frank, 106, 107
Lankenau Hospital, 106
Lankenau, John D., 21, 100, 105,
106, 107
Lankenau, Mary J., 21
Laplace, Dr. Ernest, 82, 87
Law Association of Philadelphia, 280
Lawrence, Frances A., 233
Lawrence, Francis. C, 233
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 191
Lawyers' Club, 281
Lea, John W., 260
Le Conte, Mrs. Robert, 215
Ledger, The Philadelphia Public, 72,
174, 188, 249, 250, 269
Lee, Dr. Edmund J., 35, 36
Lee, Marv E., 35, 36
Lee, General Robert E., 172, 173
Leech's Transportation Line, 151
Leedom, Joseph, 158
Leedom, Mary M., 158
Lefferts, Walter, 4
Leidy, Mrs. Joseph, 186
Leigh, Canon, 25
Leigh, Lord, 25
LejtSe, William R., 37, 240, 241, 269
Lennig, Charles, 267, 269, 270
Lentz, Anna, 281, 283
Leonard, Samuel, 174
Lesley, Susan (Mrs. J. Peter Lesley),
73, 74
Lessing, 137
Letitia Street, 237
Levis, Dr., 52
Lewis, Edwin M., 91, 138
Lewis, John A., & Co., 233
Lewis, John F., the Elder, 138
Lewis, John Frederick, 138
Lewis, Percy M., 91
Lewis, S. Weir, 138, 139
Lewis, Theodore C, 229, 232, 233
Lincoln, Abraham, 74, 211
Lincoln Drive, 6
Lincolnshire, England, 25 1
Lippincott, Craige, 157
Lippincott, Isabel Armstrong, 160
Lippincott, Joshua B., 160, 161, 162,
199
Lippincott, Mrs. Joshua B., 162, 163
Lippincott, J. Bertram, 164
Lippincott, J. B., Co., 198
Lippincott, Mrs. J. Dundas, 163
Lippincott, Sallie E. (Mrs. Craige
Lippincott), 151
Lippincott, Walter, 164
Lit Brothers, 162
Lit, Col. Samuel D., 163
Liverpool, 83, 237
Lloyd, William S., 117
Index
317
Lloyd, Mrs. William S., 117
Locust Street, 6, 10, 13, 19, 28, 40,
48, 171, 207, 258, 262, 265, 266,
267, 269
Logan, Algernon Sydney, 299
Logan Square, The Fair in the Year
1864, 155
Lombard Street, 16
London, 83, 117
Longstreth, John Cooke, 285, 288,
293
Longstreth, Judge Morris, 285
Longstreth, William W., 250
Louisiana, 264, 278
Lowell, James Russell, 290, 292
Ludlow Street, 93
Lundy, Rev. John P., 294
Lundy, Mrs. J. P., 294, 295
Macalester, Charles, 283
Mackenzie, Peter, 303
MacKeown, Elizabeth C, 127
MacVeagh, Wayne, 211, 212
MacVeagh, Mrs. Wayne, 211, 212
Mahan, Admiral, 151
Malbone, 133
Manchester, 15
Manning Street, 98, 1 28
"Man Without a Country," 69
Marine Corps, U. S., 138
Market Street, 9, 63, 109, 162, 193,
199, 217, 233, 243
Markoe, James, 233
Marshall, Miss Eugenia J., 242
Martin, Mrs. J. Willis, 7
Maryland, 4, 32, 76, 271
Mary's Lamb, 70
Massachusetts, 55, 63, 173, 215
Mason and Slidell, 73
Masonic Temple, 226
Mastbaum, Jules E., 45
McCall, Peter, 279
McCauley, Rear-Admiral, U. S.
Navy, 49
McClellan, General George B., 48,
131, 132
McFadden, George H., 303
McFadden, Mrs. George H., 303
McFadden, John H., 189, 190, 191
McFadden, Mrs. John H., 190, 192
McFadden, John H., Jr., 192
McFadden, Philip, 192
McHenry, Miss, 155
Mcllvain, Charles J., Jr., 243
McKim, Alexander, Widow of, 109
McKim, Miss Letitia, 110
McKim, J. Miller, 293
McKim, Mead & White, 107
McLean, Justice, 197
McLean, William W., 10
McMichael, Hon. Charles B., 99
McMichael, Hon. Morton, 99
McNeely, Robert K., 193
McVicar, Rev. William Neilson, 175
Medico-Chirurgical College, 238
Memorial Hall, 5, 26, 243
Mendelssohn, Felix, Bartholdy, 137
Mendelssohn, Moses, 136, 137
Mercantile Library, 138, 193
Merchants Trust Co., 280
Meredith, William M., 294
Merion Cricket Club, 56
Methodist Episcopal, 173
Mexico, 188
Michigan, 247
Middle City Bank, 40
Mifflin, Governor, 117
Mifflin, Mary, 117
Minor Street, 93
Mitten, Thomas J., 122
Montevideo, 17
Montgomery County, 229
Montgomery, Rev. James, 295
Montgomery, Dr. James A., 296, 297
Montgomery, John Teack'.e, 295,
296, 297
Moore, Mrs. Joseph, 203, 204
Moore, Joseph, Jr., 203, 205
Moore & Sinnott, 45
Morais, Henry S., 133
Mordecai, Mrs. Alfred, 133
Mordecai, General, 131
Mordecai, Major, 130, 132, 133, 134
Mordecai, The Misses, 131
Mordecai, MisS Rosa, 134
Morgan, Frank E., 50
Morrell, General Edward de V., 77,
78, 79, 80
Morris, Dr. J. Cheston, 174, 175, 176
Morris, Robert, 59
Morris, R. E., 158
Morris Street, 120
Morse, 88
Morus Multicaulis, 183
Moscow, 259
Mott, Lucretia, 288
Mozart, 137
Munzinger, Peter, 110
Museum of Archaeology, 19
Mustin, Captain H. C, U. S. N., 117
Napoleon, 241
Nashua, N. H., 63
Natatorium, 48
3i8
Index
Nathan, Mrs. Frederick, 277
National Bank Act, 257
National Guard of Pennsylvania, 77
Narragansett, 30
Naval Academy, U. S., 48
Navy Department, U. S., 117
Neff, John R., Jr., Ill, 112, 113, 115
Neff, Mrs. John R., Jr., 112, 114
Neff, Jonathan C, 112
New Albany, Indiana, 135
New Amsterdam, 1 1 1
New Bedford, 290
Newbold, Charles, 2S3, 285
Newbold, Thomas, 150
Newbold's, W. H., Son & Co., 147
New Century Club, 274
New England, 25, 292
New Granada, 247
New Jersey, 160, 218, 220, 271
New Orleans, 3S
Newport, 45, 48, 77, 166
New York, 5, 22, 39, 55, 58, 120, 131,
195, 237, 270
Nineteenth Street, 8, 9, 14, 21, 2S,
67, 97, 98, 100, 117, 120, 127, 143,
145, 150, 159, 171, 182, 189, 190,
226, 237, 249, 302
Ninth Street, 111, 165
Norris, Emily, 180
Norris, Dr. George W., 55, 62
Norris, Hannah, 180
Norris, Henry, 62, 180, 181
Norris, Isaac, 180
Norris, Joseph Parker, 180
Norris, Samuel, 177, 180
Norris, Thaddeus, 30
North America, Bank of, 256, 257
North American and United States
Gazette, 99, 108
North Penn R. R. Co., 91
Northern Home for Friendless Chil-
dren, 138
Northern Trust Co., 254
Norton, Charles Eliot, 290
Nottman, John, 171, 265
Nyack, N. Y., 77
Obreskoff, Col., 132
Ohio, 247
Old Swedes Church, 2 1 7
Old York Road, 193
Orne, Miss, 265
Orpheus, 110
Oxford University, 147
Page, Allison & Penrose, 280
Page, James, 22.5
Page, S. Davis, 278, 279, 280
Page, Mrs. S. Davis, 278, 282, 283
Page, Dr. William Byrd, 278
Pan-American Building, 244
Pancoast, Charles H., 151, 152
Pancoast, Dr. Joseph, 151
Parish House, Holy Trinity, 174
Park Commission, 99
Parley, Peter, 61, 88, 89
Paris, 89, 188
Paul, James W., 292, 293, 294
Paul, Mrs. James W., 293, 294
Paul, James W., Jr., 294
Paul, Lawrence T., 294
Paul, Mary, 294
Paul, Oglesby, 295
Peabody, George F., 203
Peale, Rembrandt, 272, 273, 292
Peale, Charles Wilson, 271
Peggy Shippen, 188, 249, 293
Peirce, Hon. William S., 286, 287, 288
Peraberton, Rebecca, 283
"Penn," 120
Penn Club, vii
Pennsylvania, 4, 5, 76, 86, 96, 138,
208, 213, 247
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, 28, 138, 148, 166, 207, 290,
291, 292
Pennsylvania Company for Insur-
ances on Lives and Granting An-
nuities, 79, 162
Pennsylvania Freeman, 292
Pennsylvania Militia, 16
Pennsylvania Museum and School of
Industrial Art, 27, 156, 207, 209,
231, 254
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 76,
77, 91, 96, 97, 107, 152, 153, 168,
169, 271, 283, 301, 302, 303
Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing
Co., 194, 205, 217
Pennsylvania Society of Colonial
Governors, vii, 278, 280
Pennsylvania Volunteers, 16
Pennsylvania Warehousing Co., 194,
204
Penrose, Senator, 280
Pepper, George S., 207, 208, 222
Pepper, Hon. George Wharton, 208
Pepper, Dr. William, 207
Pepper, William Piatt, 207
Percival, Mary Ann, 22, 23, 35
Percival, Thomas C, 22, 33, 35
Perott's Malt House, 228, 229
Person County, N. C, 211
Peterkin Papers, 73
Index
319
Peters, Richard, Jr., 291
Peters, Judge Richard, 5
Petrograd, 259
Philadelphia Bar, 2 1 , 43
Philadelphia, Bird's Eye View, 2
Philadelphia City Institute, 10
Philadelphia Club, 55, 80, 113, 148,
162, 297
Philadelphia & Columbia R. R., 152
Philadelphia Country Club, 80
Philadelphia Electric Co., 231
Philadelphia & Erie R. R. Co., 22
Philadelphia General Hospital, 123
Philadelphia Librarian, 297
Philadelphia Library, vii, 121, 122
Philadelphia National Bank, 162, 211
Philadelphia Orchestra, 156
Philadelphia & Reading R. R., 100,
162, 247
Philadelphia Saving Fund Society,
112, 162
Philadelphia Trust Co., 18, 254
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti-
more R. R., 169, 288
Phillips, Anna, 25
Phillips, Clement S., 25, 28, 29, 31
Phillips, Clement S., the Younger,
28, 298
Phillips, George Brinton, 28
Phillips, John, 28
Phillips, William, 28
Philobiblon Club, vii
Phcenixville Iron Works, 55
Phcenixville, Pa., 211
Physick, Philip, 14, 183
Physick, Dr. Philip Syng, 184, 299
Pierce, President, 131
Pine Street, 21, 48
Pittsburgh, 63, 168
Piatt, Charles, 265, 284, 286
Piatt, Mrs. Charles, 287
Piatt, Clayton T., 265
Pleasanton, Col., 23
Plymouth, the Ship, 138
Plymouth Street, 127
Pool in centre of Rittenhouse Square,
vi
Portia, 25
Posey, Dr. Louis Plumer, 233, 234,
235
Potomac, Army of the, 7
Potter, Bishop, 102
Potter, Mrs. James, 215
Potter, Sarah James, 229
Powel, Col. John Hare, 188, 189
Powel, Robert Hare, 80
Powel, Samuel, 189
Powelton, 189
Powers, Thomas H., 173, 174
Powers & Weightman, 249, 253
Powers, Weightman, Rosengarten
Co., 177
Presbyterian Hospital, 108, 248, 251
Price, Eli Kirk, 125
Price, Eli Kirk, the Elder, 285
Princeton, 71, 108, 135, 207, 271
Prison Inspectors, Board of, 226
Protestant Episcopal Church, 18,
170
Protestant Episcopal Diocese, 165
Quaker, 160, 180
Quaker City National Bank, 280
Queen of Spain, 158
Rabbit, The, 80
Race Street, 117, 160
Racquet Club, 80
Radnor Cricket Club, 56
Radnor Hunt Club, 80
Raeburn, 191
Railways, City Passenger, 1 1 8
Randall, Samuel J., 11
Read, T. Buchanan, 70
Reath, Thomas, 264
Red Cross Society, 157
Redner, Lewis H., 176
Reeves, David, 55
Reeves, Rebecca Anna, 55, 58
Reform Club, 268
Reilly, Emma Tower, 21
Rensselaer Polytechnic College, 169
Repplier, Agnes, 31, 146
Repplier, George S., 146
Repplier, Mrs. George S., 146, 147
Republican, 40, 229
Revolution, American, 21, 38, 59
Reynolds, General, 166
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 191
Rhoads, Charles J., 129
Rhode Island, 67
Richardson Home, 248
Richardson, John, 247, 256, 257
Richardson Memorial, 248
Richardson, Miss, 177, 179
Richardson Ward, 248
Richmond, Va., 43, 197
Ridge Avenue Railway Co., 1 17
Ridgway Branch, Philadelphia Li-
brary, 35
Riegel, Jacob, & Co., 203
Rittenhouse Club, 76, 77, 80, 148,
162, 207, 217, 221, 223, 225, 281
320
Index
Rittenhouse, David, 3, 5, 6, 298, 299,
300
Rittenhouse Square Improvement
Association, 7
Rittenhouse Square Rea'ty Co., 189
Rittenhouse Street, 6, 127, 297, 301
Roberts, Algernon Sydney, Sr., 182,
184, 237
Roberts, Algernon Sydney, Jr., 185,
249
Roberts, Charles, 300
Roberts, Mrs. Charles, 299
Roberts, Elizabeth C, 265
Roberts, Miss Elizabeth W., 237
Roberts, Frances A., 265
Roberts, G. Theodore, 237, 238
Roberts, Mrs. John B., 91
Roberts, Miss, 248
Roberts, The Misses, 184, 266
Roberts, Sarah Cazenove, 237
Roberts, Solomon W., 91, 92
Roberts, Mrs. So'omon W., 91, 92
Robinson, Edward M., 211, 213
Robinson, Mrs. Edward M., 213
Rogers, Evans, 165
Rogers, Fairman, 165, 166, 168
Rogers, Mrs. Fairman, 166, 167
Roman, Dr. and Mrs., 109
Roman Catholic, 159
Rome, 283
Romney, 191
Roosevelt, Theodore, 31
Rosengarten, Frank H., 177
Rosengarten, Mrs. Frank H., 177, 179
Rosengarten, George D., 135, 136,
177, 178
Rosengarten, Joseph G., 135, 177
Rose Tree Hunt Club, 80
Rowland, Joseph G., 129
Roxborough, 5
Royal Geographical Society, 203
Rush's Lancers, 18
Russia, 131, 211, 259, 261, 270, 283,
294
Russian Government, 258, 260
Saint Gaudens, Augustus, 212
St. Andrew's Church, 129
St. Anthony Club, 8 1
St. Bride's Parish, 117
St. Christopher's Hospital, 277
St. George's Hotel, 247
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 171,
264, 265
St. Michael's Church, 295
St. James' Episcopal Church, 217
St. Patrick's Church, 127
St. Paul's Church, 274
St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., 147
St. Petersburg (now Petrograd), 259,
262, 283
St. Stephen's Church, 296
Samuel, J. Bunford, 131
Samuel, Matilda, 83
Sanders, Mrs. John, 155
Sanford, Edward S., 55, 56
San Francisco, 41
Sanitary Commission, 40
S;rgeant, John, 294
Sargent, John Singer, 32, 290, 291
Saturday Club, 166
Savannah, 112
Savidge, Eugene Coleman, M.D., 288
School of Anatomy, The Philadelphia,
237
School Directors, 29
Schott, Miss Mary W., 109
Schott, William, 109
Schuylkill Fifth Street, 8, 13, 243
Schuylkill Fourth Street, 8
Schuylkill Front Street, 9
Schuylkill Rangers, 77
Schuylkill River, 9, 174
Scotch Ancestry, 1 17
Scotland, 22
Scott, Alexander, 24
Scott, Mrs. Edgar, 215
Scott, Mrs. Eliza Perkins, 55, 58, 60,
61
Scott, Miss Hannah, 24
Scott, Sir John, 22
Scott, Hon. John M., 24
Scott, Lewis A., 22, 23, 24, 141
Scott, Lucius H., 55
Scott, Col. Thomas A., 28, 93, 96, 97,
98, 202
Scott, Col. Thomas A., Residence, 97
Scott, Mrs. Thomas A., 2s, 91
Scott, Sir Walter, 133, 198
Second Presbyterian Church, 135
Second Regiment, N. G. P., 147
Second Street, 135
Semiladis, 143
Seventeenth Street, 10, 50, 110, 25S,
262, 265
Seventh Day Baptists, 219, 220
Seventh Street, 84, 110, 135, 217, 298,
299
Shakespeare, 25, 40
Shannon, Ellwood, 91
Sharpless, Samuel J., 159
Sheffield, 50
Shelton, Frederick H., 7
Shields, Rev. Charles W., 135, 136
Shippen, Peggy, 188, 249, 293
Index
321
Shober, John B., 289, 290
Shoemaker, Dr. John V., 237, 238 239
Shot Tower, 217
Sibley, Edward A., 275, 276
Sibley, Mrs. Edward A., 271, 276
Siddons, Mrs., 25
Simpson, Mrs. Matthew, 155
Sinnickson, Charles P., 135
Sinnicksop, Mrs. Charles P., 135, 137
Sinnott, Annie E., 40, 45, 46
Sinnott, Joseph P., 40, 45, 47
Siter, Annie E. B., 50
Siter, Dr. E. Hollingsworth, 50, 54
Siter, Susan H., 50
Sixteenth Street, 52, 76, 135, 171, 173,
177, 178
Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, 17
Sixth Street, 84, 118, 120
Sixtieth Street, 248
Slade, Alfred, 237
Slevin, Jamqs, 182
Slevin, John 182
Sloanaker, Elizabeth B., 141
Sloanaker, William H., 141
Smith, Mrs. A u brey H., 155
Smith, Catharine, 35
Smith, Charlps, 36
Smith, Decatur, 110
Smith, Professor Edgar Fahs, 35
Smith, General, 166
Smith, Kline & French Co., 193
Smith, Roberf, 93 > 94
Smith, General Rudolph, 2 1
Smith, Thomas D., 20, 21
Smith, Rev. William, 21
Smith, William Rudolph, 21, 38
Smithsonian Institution, 87
Smyth, Samuel, 151
Smyth, Sarah E. (Mrs. Charles H.
Pancoast), 151
Social Art Club, 76, 162, 221, 223,
225
Society of the Cincinnati, 22
Society of Colonial Wars, 81, 280
Society of Friends, 39, 180
Society of the Sons of St. George, 9 1
Soissons, 110
Sons of the American Revolution, 280
Sons of the Revolution, 27, 77, 113,
124
South America, 17, 100
South Atlantic, 3 1
South Carolina, 39
South Schuylkill Fifth Street, 8
South Schuylkill Fourth Street, 8
South wark National Bank, 217
Spain, Queen of, 158
Sparks, Richard, 218, 219
Sparks, Thomas, 217, 221, 222
Sparks, Mrs. Thomas, 223
Sparks, Thomas W., 217, 224
Spooner, Walter W., 100
Spruce Street, 55, 67, 98, 110, 123,
129, 228, 229, 298, 303
Starr, Dr. Louis, 50, 54
Starr, Mary Parrish, 50
State Legislature, 24
State in Schuylkill, 29, 55, 80
Stevens, Bishop, 129
Stevenson, Mrs. Cornelius, 185, 186,
187, 188
Stille, Mrs. Charles J., 155
Stitt, Mr. and Mrs. Seth B., 266
Stock Exchange, Philadelphia, 237
Stoddard, Alice Kent, 179
Stokes, Dandy, 6
Stoneleigh Abbey, 25
Story, Julian, 213
Stotesbury, Edward T., 122, 25.X, 263,
265, 266
Stotesbury, Mrs. Edward T., 263
Stratford Hotel, 247, 249
Street Railway Transportation, 119,
120, 121
Stuart, Gilbert, 21, 292
Sturgis, Robert R., 214, 215
Sturgis, Mrs. Robert S., 215, 216
Sully, Thomas, 21, 91, 183
Sunday School, Holy Trinity, 174
Supreme Court of Russia, 261
Supreme Court of the United States,
197
Swain, James, 159
Swain, William, 165
Switzerland, 281
Sylvester, Charles, 237
Sylvester, Frederick, 237
Sylvester, Frederick J., 236, 237
Sylvester, Sarah, 237
Symphony Concerts, 155
Syria, 276
Tabernacle Church, 123
Tanner, 8
Tate, Miss Elizabeth, 283
Tatham, William, 301, 302
Taylor, Aaron, 110
Taylor, Cornelia, 109
Taylor, Fanny M., 109
Taylor, Frank H., 182
Temple, Joseph E., 171
Tennent, Derrickson & Co., 243
Tennent, James, 243
Tenth Street, 111, 193, 278
322
Index
Tevis, Joshua, 82, 84, 85
Texas & Pacific Railway, 98
Thackeray, 50, 290
Thanksgiving Day, 74
Third Regiment, N. G. P., 77
Third Street, 10, 215, 267
Thirteenth Street, 48, 263
Thomas, Ann, 278
Thomas, Rear-Admiral Charles M.,
41, 43, 48, 49, 298
Thomas, Doctor, 161
Thomas, Joseph T., 40, 41, 42, 43
Thomas, Mrs. Joseph T., 41, 42, 43,
44
Thomas, Miss Mabel L. H., 278
Thomas, Samuel B., 40
Thomas, Samuel Hinds, 278
Thomson, Dr. Archibald G., 107
Thomson, John Edgar, 97, 152, 301,
302, 303
Thomson, Mrs. John Edgar, 155, 302,
303
Thomson, Frank, 107
Thomson, Mary Lowber, 100
Thomson, Dr. William, 107
Tingley, Burton, & Co., 233
Tomkins, Rev. Floyd W., 174, 175
Torresdale, Pa., 231
Totem Fountain, 8
Tower, Hon. Charlemagne, 21, 283,
294
Tower, Mrs. Charlemagne, 294
Towne Scientific School, 55
Townsend, John W., 174
Travelers Aid Society, 20
Treasurer of the U. S., 21
Treasury, Secretary of the U. S., 197
Trent, Steamer, 73
Trinity Church, Boston, 173, 175
Troy, N. Y., 169
Trumbower, Henry C, 211
Tuley, Col., 43
Turkey, 131, 211, 261
Turner, 191
Tustin, Ernest L., 116
Twelfth Street, 40, 134, 199, 200
Twentieth Street, 127, 173
Twenty-first Street, 228, 229, 253
Twenty-second Street, 119, 217
Tyrone County, Ireland, 225
Ugny-le-Gay, 186
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 293
Underground Railroad, 288
Union Benevolent Association, 138
Union Club, 162, 196, 294
Union League, The, 23, 27, 81, 86, 95,
162, 166, 196, 204, 207, 209, 229,
292, 294
Union Pacific Railroad Co., 98
United Gas Improvement Co., 149,
229
United States Bank, 200
United States Coast Survey, 165
United States Commissioner, 285, 286
United States Congress, 11, 79
United States Consul in Paris, 89
United States Dispensatory, 162
United States District Court, 286
United States Exploring Expedition,
72
United States Hotel, 16
United States Legation in Rome, 283
United States Mint, 5
University Club, 148, 281
University of Pennsylvania, 5, 6, 17,
18, 19, 21, 22, 31, 32, 35, 56, 79,
103, 124, 147, 148, 162, 165, 188,
207, 234, 269, 272, 274, 284, 289,
293, 297
Uruguay, 17
Valparaiso, 49
Van Lennep, Mrs. William B., 55
Van Rensselaer, Mr. and Mrs. Alex-
ander, 242
Van Rensselaer, Gratz, 133
Vansant, Abraham Larue, 111, 112
Vansant, Mrs. Abraham Larue, 1 1 3
Vansant, Dr. E. L., Ill
Vatican, 265
Vaux, Emily Norris, 180
Vaux, Richard, 10, 11
Venezuelan Arbitration, 211
Venus, Transit of, 5
Vicksburg, 95
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland and Empress of India, 91
Vienna, 124, 165
Villequier-Aumont, 186
Vinton, Rev. Dr., 174, 175
Vinton, Mrs., 175
Violett, Miss, 38
Virginia, 43
Virtue, Liberty and Independence, 16
Vonnoh, 208, 292, 294
Vox Populi, 1 1
Wade & Butcher, 50
Wade, Robert, 50, 51
Wade, Mrs. Robert, 5 1
Waldteufel, 143
Wales, 260
Index
3 2 3
Walnut Place, 250
Walnut Street, 6, 8, 14, 40, 48, 50, 52,
62, 76, 93, 109, 118, 120, 143, 145,
150, 163, 171, 173, 180, 182, 189,
217, 222, 225, 226, 227, 237, 241,
242, 246, 247, 248, 249, 255, 257
Walnut Street Presbyterian Church,
vii, 111
Walraven, Emma, 131
Walraven, Ira E., 131
Walsh, Stevenson Hockley, 250, 251
Waltham, England, 251
Wanamaker's Bethany Church, 258
Wanamaker, John, 108, 258
Wanamaker, Mary Lowber, 100
Wanamaker, Thomas B., 100, 107,
108
War, Assistant Secretary of, 97
War of 1812, 271
Warner, Annie R., Hospital, Gettys-
burg, 123
Warner, Benjamin, 197, 198
Warren County, Ohio, 197
Washington, D. C, 42, 74, 97, 134,
244
Washington, General, 271
Washington Hotel, 84
Washington Square, East, 162
Washingtoniana, 38
Waters, Mr. and Mrs. Jason, 202
Watson, William C, 182
Weaver, George I., 193
Webster, Daniel, 16
Weightman, Sabine J., 207
Weightman, William, 208, 247, 249,
251, 252, 253, 254, 255
Weightman, William, Jr., 207, 208
Weil, Mathilde, 46
Weld, Mr., 265
Wellington, The, 190, 237
Welsh, 91
Welsh, John, 108, 174, 283
Welsh, Mary Lowber, 108
Welsh, Samuel, 108
Welsh, William, 174, 283
Wesley, Charles S., Ill, 116
Western Saving Fund Society, 18
West Philadelphia, 6, 121, 251, 266,
267
West Point, 131
Wetherill, Samuel Price, 91, 93, 98,
196, 197, 202, 301, 302
Wharton, Charles, 283
Wharton, Miss Frances Brinley, 186
Wharton, Dr. Francis, 203
Wharton, Francis Rawle, 296
Wharton, Joseph, 164
Whelen, Dr. Alfred, 38
Whelen, Charles Smith, 38, 39
Whelen, Edward S., 37, 40, 241, 257
Whelen, Henry, 38, 298
Whelen, Israel, 38, 39
Whelen, James S., 39
Whelen, Sarah Y., 37
Whelen, Townsend, 37, 40
White, Bishop, 59
White, Emily T., 67
White, Floyd Hall, 77, 78
White, Dr. J. W., the Elder, 31
White, Dr. J. William, 28, 31, 32, 33
White, Mrs. J. William, 33
White, Major, 144
White, The Misses, 144
White, Mrs. Richard P., 155
White, Dr. S. S., 200
White, S. S., Dental Manufacturing
Co., 31
White Haven, 10
Whitney, Asa, 174, 176
Whitney, Mrs. Harry Payne, 8
Whitney, Hon. William C, 49
Wilkes, Captain U. S. Exploring Ex-
pedition, 72, 73
Williams, Roger, 67
Willing, Abigail, 292
Willing, Thomas, 5, 257
Wills Eye Hospital, 123
Willson, Hon. Robert N., 272
Willow Street, 100
Wilmer, Rev. Dr., 264, 265
Wilstach, Gertrude, 243
Wilstach, William P., 243, 244
Wilstach, Mrs. William P., 243, 245
Winans, 260
Wind and Spray Fountain, 8
Winebrenner, David, 267, 268, 288
Wisconsin, 21, 247
Wistar, Frances A., 23
Wister, 299
Wister, Dr. Caspar, 222
Wister, Jones, 208, 209
Wister, Mrs. Jones, 208
Witmer, Dr. Lightner, 147
Witmer, Mrs. Lightner, 147
Wolfsohn, 143
Woman's Union Missionary Society,
70
Women's Centennial Executive Com-
mittee, 154
Women's Directory, 20
Wood, George A., 283, 284
Woodruff, A. Dickinson, 271
Woodruff, E. D., 271
Woodward, Judge, 176
3 H
Index
Woodward, William H., 50, 52
World War, 170
Worrell, John R., 215
Wright, J. Hood, 213
Wright, S. Megargee, 180
Wright, Mrs. S. Megargee, 180
Wurts, George W., 283
Wurts, Isabella Graham, 282, 283
Wurts, Johannes Conrad, 282
Wurts, John, 282
Wurts, Maurice, 278
Wurts, William, 278, 280, 281, 282,
283
Wurts, Mrs. William, 281, 283
Wyatt, Mrs. Walter S., 237
Wyeth, Frank H., 123, 124
Wyeth, Henrietta B., 117
Wyeth, John, & Brother, 26, 124
Yale, 211, 278
Yeates Institute Fund, 37
York, Pa., 282
York Road, 173
Zurich, 281, 283
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